The competitive Super Derby line up still cannot overshadow Prayer for Relief’s credentials this year
Prayer for Relief will have to beat Alternation to keep his perfect run going, in the year 2011, the 3-year-old colt is 3 of 3 in as many starts this year, and the Grade 2 Super Derby couldn’t have come at the right time for Bob Baffert trained colt.
Another fact that would support Prayer for Relief in his bid for a fourth in a row, is that he has been unbeaten on dirt so far and when he comes out to invade Southern California, he will face eight other rivals in the Grade 2 $500,000 Super Derby at Louisiana
Downs.
Clearly by all accounts, Prayer for Relief is the one to beat come 10 September, 2011, but it is not as clear cut as it sounds, because there are other contenders who can overhaul Prayer for Relief on any given day.
One such name comes to mind, the Grade 2 Peter Pan Stakes winner, 3-year-old colt Alternation, who can stop Prayer for Relief in his tracks. The Distorted Humor colt is a potent threat, if he can do what he did in the Peter Pan Stakes.
His dramatic win at Belmont Park on 30 July, 2011, earned him his first grade 2 win, the Donnie Von Hemel trained colt finished fourth in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes recently.
Malibu Glow on the other hand cannot be denied, with his dismal performance in the Grade 1 Travers Stakes at Saratoga where he finished fifth, he could easily be the dark horse of the race.
However, with all the competition Prayer for Relief has to contend with on 10 September at Louisiana Downs, he has stepped up his game dramatically since last year, when back in 2010 he went on to break his $50,000 maiden at the Hollywood Park race course.
Since then he hasn’t looked back and went on to grow rapidly in confidence and it shows in every race he enters.
He has also gone on to win the Grade 3 Iowa Derby and the Grade 2 West Virginia Derby, both of them this year.
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