2011 West Virginia Derby Box Set

Las Vegas, NV — Put up positions had been drawn for the forty second working of the Grade 2, $750,000 West Virginia Derby. The 1 1/8-mile race for three-year-olds highlights a nine-race card (comprised fully of open corporate stakes) to be run this Saturday, August 6, at Mountaineer On line casino Racetrack & Hotel.

The 10 horse box contains Dreamy Child, a photo-finish winner of the Grade 2 Swaps Stakes at Hollywood Park on July 9; and Prayer for Reduction, a two-length winner of the Grade 3 Iowa Derby at Prairie Meadows on June 25.

A few of the horses Dreamy Child defeated within the Swaps was once Coil, who in flip beat Preakness Stakes winner Shackleford and Belmont Stakes winner Ruler On Ice in final Sunday’s Grade 1 Haskell Invitational Handicap at Monmouth Park. Dreamy Child is educated through Corridor of Famer Neil Drysdale and will likely be ridden through Joesph Talamo, who was once additionally aboard within the Swaps.

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Prayer for Reduction is educated through any other Corridor of Famer, Bob Baffert, who is attempting for his 2d consecutive West Virginia Derby victory. Brotherly love Level registered a front- working, one-length ranking within the 2010 version of the race. Prayer for Reduction will likely be piloted through Rafael Bejarano, who additionally has a previous West Virginia Derby win on his resume, aboard Sir Shackleton in 2005.

Sherriff Cogburn, who completed 2d within the Iowa Derby, has additionally drawn in; as has Infrattini, who completed 2d within the Grade 3 Matt Winn Stakes at Churchill Downs on June 18. Sherriff Cogburn will likely be ridden through the Prairie Meadows-based jockey Perry Compton. 3-time Kentucky Derby winner Calvin H. Borel will likely be aboard Infrattini.

Little Drama, a half-brother to the 2009 West Virginia Derby runner-up (and 2010 North American male dash champion) Large Drama, will likely be ridden within the West Virginia Derby through Philadelphia-based Kendrick Carmouche.

Skilled through David Fawkes, Little Drama has two times positioned in graded corporate this 12 months, and maximum just lately completed 3rd within the $153,000 Lengthy Department Stakes at Monmouth. Little Drama additionally received final 12 months’s Frank Gomez Memorial Stakes at Calder Race Path and this 12 months’s Philmont Stakes at Parx Racing (previously referred to as Philadelphia Park).

Instructor Steve Asmussen has despatched horses postward in 5 of the final six renewals of the West Virginia Derby, and has 3 times received the race – with Actual Dandy in 2005, Zanjero in 2007 and Soul Warrior (who disappointed Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Chook) in 2009. Asmussen’s strong will likely be represented on this 12 months’s West Virginia Derby through Superior Wager, who received the $100,000 Barbaro Stakes at Delaware Park on July 9. Alan
Garcia, regarded as probably the most ascending stars within the recreation, will experience Superior Wager.

The West Virginia Derby box additional contains Loranger Local, the winner of the $100,000 Blue and Gold Stakes at Charles The city on April 16, educated through Michael Stidham. James Graham, who completed unplaced aboard co-favored Recapturetheglory within the 2008 West Virginia Derby, has the mount.

Rush Now can even pass postward. He was once a wire-to-wire, 4 1/4-length winner of the Spend a Greenback Stakes at Monmouth Might 22. Instructor Anthony Dutrow has named Cornelio Velasquez, a two-time winner of Breeders’ Cup occasions, to experience him.

DeShawn Parker, who led all North American jockeys in victories final 12 months, leads the standings once more this 12 months and is Mountaineer’s all-time main rider, have been named aboard his first West Virginia Derby mount. He’s going to be on Fred Prime, who’s educated through Tim Tullock, Jr., and has positioned in a quartet of allowance races this 12 months.

Finishing the sphere is Skipping the Ranking, who broke his maiden (in his eleventh take a look at) at Indiana Downs on July 12. Skipping the Ranking is educated through Troy Rankin, and Victor Lebron, who has received more than one using titles at Kentucky tracks, would be the jockey.

Handbags for the entire of the West Virginia Derby card will general $1.47 million. The primary publish will likely be 2 p.m. EDT, and the West Virginia Derby will likely be run because the 8th race, with an approximate publish of five:35 p.m. EDT. Admission and normal parking will likely be unfastened. The race might not be community telecast, however will also be noticed and wagered on at simulcast websites right through the U.S.

This is the total box for Saturday’s West Virginia Derby: