West Virginia Derby

We'll take a look at the most recent effort, and second career victory was a pretty nice one at that.

A career best beyer of a 93 in the West Virginia Derby at Mountaineer.

And, you know, he was able to get a little bit more forward in here, set fractions to his liking, and just keep on kicking on.

You gotta love the visual of this race.

Look at this horse moving through the stretch with these big bounding strides.

I mean, he always was a pretty big physical, but it seemed like the addition of the blinkers got him more engaged in the race last time in this West Virginia Derby.

And he just traveled like a winner every step of the way, and ran away pretty easily through the stretch there.

Johnny V. getting him more into the race.

But if I own these horses, I would run them both in the Classic for the reasons I just stated, that they're This is this is, you know, the race you want to win.

It would be like passing the Kentucky Derby to go into the West Virginia Derby.

I mean, that's a little harsh, I understand.

But, you know, and we all hope that's what they do.

Because I don't, you know, I don't know how much of a household name Our Money Man is, the horse that he was holding off there, but that horse isn't bad.

I mean, I don't think I would've looked at Our Money Man if they entered him in the Travers and thought, "Well, he's got no shot in here." That horse has gotten good, and there was another also ran from that race who came back to win the West Virginia Derby with a pretty solid figure, too.

So I, I think he did some good things last time, Leading Change.

Mike, I do wanna take a look at that Time Form U.S. Pace Projector in the lower right-hand portion of the screen.

He's, uh, he's a five-year-old now.

I thought he won last year's West Virginia Derby, but he actually won the 2024 West Virginia Derby.

And, uh, he's coming off a nice, uh, allowance win at Indiana Grand or Horseshoe Indiana.

Can't remember what, what they, uh, call themselves now.