All Included pointing to Miami Mile

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Todd Pletcher said All Included, who won the Grade 3 Appleton after finishing second in the Grade 1 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap, will make his next start in the Grade 3 Miami Mile here April 29.

“He seems to like Gulfstream, so that seems like the most logical spot,” Pletcher said.

Pletcher breezed several notable horses Friday at Palm Beach Downs, including Destin and Syndergaard.

Destin, the winner of last year’s Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby and the runner-up, a nose behind Creator, in the 2016 Belmont Stakes, worked an easy half-mile in 50.60 seconds in company with Far From Over.

“This was his fourth work back,” Pletcher said. “He’s just getting going. He’ll probably be ready sometime around midsummer at Belmont.”

Pletcher said Destin just wasn’t right following his disappointing ninth-place finish in the Travers last summer at Saratoga.

“He wasn’t moving real well after the Travers,” Pletcher said. “He kind of got jarred up there, so we gave him a brief vacation, brought him back, but he still wasn’t quite right. So, we sent him to Ocala, freshened him up, and he looks great now.”

Syndergaard, idle since his fifth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, cruised five furlongs in company in 1:02.32. Syndergaard had surgery to remove a chip from his right knee following the Breeders’ Cup.

“Right now, we’re pointing him to the William Walker going six furlongs opening night at Churchill Downs,” Pletcher said. “Hopefully, that will set him up for our first main goal, which is the Woody Stephens early this summer at Belmont.”