2013 West Virginia Derby - Departing

Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider’s Departing was the first horse nominated to the $750,000 West Virginia Derby (gr. II) and the first horse entered when entries were taken July 30. And he was first under the wire--by a big margin--and became a millionaire in the process. Departing, a 3-year-old Kentucky homebred gelding by War Front out of the Pulpit mare Leave, rebounded from a sixth-place finish in the Preakness Stakes (gr. I) in May to dismantle the field in the 1 1/8-mile West Virginia Derby a