The Windsor Park Plate will be next on September 20 before the Spring Carnival on October 4.
"Some horses are born with natural ability and some have them but don't use it," says Noble, who is keen to use tomorrow as a dress rehearsal to see how Viadana is becoming conditioned for the Bay carnival.
He hastens to add that the Foxbridge Plate field oozes quality enough to demand a group-one status but it is just a listed race.
Despite some rain in Hamilton, he expects his horse to start on drawn-out barrier 9 of 14.
"She'll get away with a slow track but if it's wet then it won't be very good.
"Te Rapa has a lot of sand so the track drains very well and I'm keen to run her."
He doesn't expect to win over the 1400m distance but it won't surprise him if she does.
"For a lot of horses it won't be the Rugby World Cup final," he says, adding the priority for trainers is rating and bringing the horses up to fitness for a new season.
If anything, he expects his horse, which prefers 1600m, to make a bold run.
He is wary of Veyron in the No 1 barrier who has Australian race experience although Viadana has also competed in the group one Queen of the Turf in Randwick, Sydney, for a fifth placing. It was her last outing.
Noble bought Viadana for $25,000 at the Karaka sale in 2009.
The mare, by Towkay out of Yeah Nah, has had 30 starts to register 11 victories and has pocketed her owners (Easdon No 4 Racing Syndicate, which wife Leigh manages on behalf of the dozen members) $700,000.
"She'll be worth a lot of money when she retires as a broodmare."
Her group one wins are the Manco Easter Handicap (1600m) at Ellerslie on April 13 last year, the NRM Sprint at Te Rapa (1400m) on February 8 this year and the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders Stake (1600m) on April 4 this year.
They all came on dead tracks.
Noble believes all tracks should be good surfaces to provide traction for good races.
"You don't want excuses as a trainer after a race, saying things like 'she didn't like the track'.
"You want to have a fair race where the best horse wins."
Ultimately he expects his horse, which he considers one of the top three in New Zealand, to have some fun tomorrow with her turn of speed.
Asked where he would place Viadana in an All Black line up between fullback Ben Smith and No 6 Jerome Kaino, Noble laughs before replying: "She has speed but doesn't mind wanting to get into a fight with other horses so she'll be somewhere between the two."
Tomorrow's race will sort out the Makfi Challenge trip with the Windsor Park Plate as a standby if she doesn't.
"It's great for racing to build momentum towards Hastings.
"It's always good to bring horses to better racing in Hawke's Bay where there's more prestige and more money, because it's a business."
In the bigger scheme of things this spring, a fillies and mares' race in Melbourne beckons and then the Myer Classic at Flemington.
It's hard to go past the rapport jockey Craig Grylls has built with the horse.
"Craig's one of the best jockeys in this country. He's very hard working and is based in Matamata. He and Viadana get on very well. It's a good marriage," Noble says.
Grylls took over from Mark Du Plessis almost a year later in October last year and has been in the saddle for every race bar Randwick with Craig Williams holding the reins.
Other horses include Spin Doctor, I Do and Xanadu.
