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Informed Decision overtakes Ventura in Madison
"(Ventura) did run by us," Velazquez admitted. "(Informed Decision) hasn't run this year, so I was trying to ride her very cautiously. I didn't want to move until I saw the other horse. The other horse had the momentum already. When (Ventura) passed me, I though, 'Oh, I guess I waited too long.' Finally, when (Informed Decision) got between horses, she kicked on. She did it for me because I fell asleep a little too long." Informed Decision rewarded her backers with payouts of $8.20, $3 and $2.40 as the 3-1 second choice. Ventura was worth $2.10 and $2.10 while ending the $14.20 exacta. Bear Now finished another 1 1/4 lengths back in third while holding that spot by the same margin over Dubai Majesty. Show returned $3.40 at 19-1 while the trifecta totaled $71. Dubai Majesty completed the 1-4-6-3 superfecta that paid $248.20, while Bsharpsonata (Pulpit) and Authenicat (D'wildcat) finished the order under the wire. Proud Heiress (Broken Vow) was withdrawn. "She quits; her head goes flat and she just stops," Gomez said of Ventura. "Once she makes the lead, she'll run about 50 yards and then she loses focus and it's over. I took her around, but she was left out on the lead too long. It's cost her before. She's a super mare, though." Informed Decision is no stranger to the graded winner's circle, taking the Raven Run S. (G2) in her three-year-old finale while setting a new Keeneland Polytrack record of 1:20.86. Prior to that one, the gray lass was an easy winner of the Missile Belle S. and third in the Victory Ride S. (G3). She also recorded a 6 1/4-length win in a Keeneland allowance/optional claimer last year. Making her four-year-old bow in the Madison, the filly has now accumulated $522,587 in lifetime earnings to go along with an 8-6-0-1 career mark. Bred in Kentucky by Charles L. Kidder & Nancy M. Cole, Informed Decision has passed through the sales ring twice, bringing $150,000 as a Fasig-Tipton July yearling and $320,000 as a Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May two-year-old. She is out of the winning Palangana (His Majesty) and has a pair of unnamed half-sisters, a Zavata juvenile and a Champali yearling. Informed Decision's second dam is Grade 3 winner and Grade 2-placed Countess North (Northern Dancer), who produced 1985 New Orleans H. (G2) winner Westheimer (Blushing Groom [Fr]). This is the same family as three-time Grade 1 heroine Banker's Lady (Nijinsky II), Grade 1 scorer Ecton Park (Forty Nner), Grade 2 winners Banker's Gold (Forty Niner), Impetuous Gal (Briartic), Relaxing Rhythm (Easy Goer) and Spring Waltz (Silver Charm) as well as Grade 3 victress Meribel (Peaks and Valleys).
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