Trainer H. Graham Motion will have a double threat in the $75,000 George Rosenberger Memorial.  The 47-year-old native of Cambridge, England, who won this year’s Kentucky Derby with Animal Kingdom, has entered both Nancy Mazzoni’s She Be Classy and Live Oak Plantation’s Unbridled Humor.  The mile-and-a-sixteenth turf affair for fillies and mares has attracted a field of ten.

“I intend to run them both,” said trainer H. Graham Motion.  “I obviously would not Unbridled Humor if the race came off the grass, but I will more than likely run She Be Classy either way.  It would really help She Be Classy if the race came off even though she has won the grass.  She has proven her versatility by winning a pair of off the turf races – the Rooney and an allowance.”

In her most recent, She Be Classy notched a 3 ½-length triumph in a mile-and-a-sixteenth Delaware Park allowance originally scheduled for the turf on August 16.  Previously, the 4year-old daughter of Toccet finished eleventh in the mile-and-three-eighths Grade III Robert G. Dick Memorial on the Delaware Park turf on July 9.  On June 18, the Kentucky-bred notched a 3 ½-length score in the mile-and-a-sixteenth $75,000 John Rooney Memorial which was transferred to the main track.  She sports a career record of six wins, two seconds and three thirds from 22 starts with earnings of $158,608.

All five career starts for Unbridled Humor have been on the grass.  The 4-year-old daughter of Distorted Humor was defeated for the first time in her most recent when she finished seventh beaten 5 ½-lengths in the mile-and-an-eighth Grade I Diana at Saratoga on July 30.  But the Florida-bred found herself faced with a situation she had never faced in the Diana. 

“There was no speed in the race and she found herself on the lead and she never really settled,” Motion said.  “I think if we could have a do over, I probably would just let her run her race rather than try to keep her relaxed.  It was something she had not really been faced with before and to be put in that situation in your first Grade I race is not really ideal.  If she runs back to her Delaware race, she will be very tough to beat.”

In her only other start this year, she posted an 8 ½-length triumph in a mile-and-a-sixteenth allowance at Delaware Park on July 5.