Untrapped targets Zia Park Derby

Oklahoma Derby hero Untrapped will target the $200,000 Zia Derby on Nov. 22, said trainer Steve Asmussen on Monday. The 1 1/16-mile race is one of the final straight 3-year-old stakes on the national calendar.

The Zia Derby will be part of the Land of Enchantment card of stakes at the New Mexico track that includes the $300,000 Zia Park Oaks.

McCormick, the runner-up in the Iowa Derby who finished seventh in the Oklahoma Derby, could move back to turf for his next start, trainer Ian Wilkes said.

“I think we’ll bring him back and run him one more time, give him a break, and race him next year,” Wilkes said. “I’ve got to find out where. Maybe we go back to the grass with him or try something different on the dirt.”

Wilkes said McCormick could cut back to a one-turn mile, a distance over which he won an allowance in June at Churchill Downs. The son of Hard Spun and the Grade 1-winning mare Affluent races for breeder Whitman Thoroughbreds.