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After stumbling soon after the start, Informed Decision needed every inch of the Presque Isle Downs stretch to get up and win the Grade 3 $400,000 Presque Isle Masters on Saturday

Informed Decision answered the question that trainer Jonathan Sheppard wanted answered and won the $100,000 Windward at Presque Isle Downs on Tuesday evening.

Misremembered established a track record winning the Grade 2, $500,000 Indiana Derby at Hoosier Park Saturday afternoon.

When 15 horses were entered in Saturday's Grade 2, $500,000 Indiana Derby at Hoosier Park on Wednesday, it put to rest whether a barn under a strangles quarantine would limit the size of the field. Now on to more pressing questions.

Informed Decision could not have been more impressive defeating six other fillies and mares in the Grade 3, $400,000 Presque Isle Masterson Saturday evening at Presque Isle Downs.

When Presque Isle Downs opened in 2007, management positioned its premier event, the $400,000 Presque Isle Downs Masters, in September to serve a stepping-stone to the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.

The Ohio Derby, a Grade 2, $300,000 race at Thistledown, will not be run this year, the track announced Tuesday.

Tin Cup Chalice led from gate to wire and jockey Pedro Rodriguez lulled the field of 12 to sleep through slow middle fractions to prevail by a length in the $500,000 Indiana Derby at Hoosier Park.

Golden Doc A will make her debut for trainer Greg Fox when she takes on 10 other 3-year-old fillies in the Grade 2, $400,000 Indiana Oaks at Hoosier Park on Friday.

Pyro will have to overcome the outside post in a field of 12 if he is to win the Grade 2, $500,000 Indiana Derby on Saturday at Hoosier Park.

It is not often that a trainer sends out his first starter in a $400,000 race, but that is exactly what will happen when Will Phipps saddles Dream Rush in the six-furlong Presque Isle Masters at the Erie, Pa., track on Saturday.

The inaugural 25-day meet at Presque Isle Downs, the Erie, Pa., racetrack offering slots-enriched purses, attracted an average of $585,680 a day in wagering from all sources.

Miss Macy Sue is now the track record holder for six furlongs at Presque Isle Downs after winning the $400,000 Masters on Saturday.

Saturday's $400,000 Presque Isle Downs Masters, the highlight of this track's inaugural meet, has developed into a summit of synthetic-track specialists.

A field of eight was entered on Wednesday for the $400,000 Presque Isle Masters, the highlight of this inaugural meet in Erie, Pa.

Patrons were 10 deep on the apron near the finish line Saturday night as Miss A Bomb nosed out Tres Dream in the first race of the Presque Isle Downs meet, the $100,000 Inaugural Stakes.