Overanalyze Filly Comes Out Running for Repole, Pletcher at Belmont

[Wandering Eyes]

1st-AQU, $100,000, Msw, 4-18, 2yo, f, 4 1/2f, :52.12, ft.
DISCLUDE (f, 2, Overanalyze–Elusive Raven, by Elusive Quality), a half-sister to these connections’ Lost Raven (Uncle Mo), GSW, $359,050, showed a good turn of foot around the bend to comfortably take this lucrative first baby race of the season in New York. Part of a 35-100 couple entry with Ma Meatloaf (Stay Thirsty), the chestnut broke with the top flight but had to be scrubbed on by John Velazquez early as she dropped back to fourth along the bend. She soon figured out what she was supposed to be doing, however, and quickly picked off foes with a sweeping three-deep move. Front-running Mertz (Ghostzapper) fought on gamely to midstretch, but Disclude found another gear and pulled away in hand before galloping out willingly. Ma Meatloaf won the photo for third. Todd Pletcher trained the winner’s dam Elusive Raven-a $380,000 KEESEP yearling-on behalf of the late Ned Evans to a second-place finish behind a stablemate at Saratoga in 2010. Elusive Raven, a $75,000 KEENOV ’11 purchase, is out of GSW Summer Raven (Summer Squal), making her a half to graded winners Lewis Bay (Bernardini), Misconnect (Unbridled’s Song) and Winslow Homer (Unbridled’s Song). This is also the family of GISW Wild Rush. Elusive Raven produced an Uncle Mo filly this term. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $50,000. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
O-Repole Stable; B-Repole Stable, Inc. (KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher.

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