Alydar next logical step for Far From Over

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Far From Over, undefeated in three career starts, will step back into stakes company in Sunday’s $100,000 Alydar Stakes.

Far From Over, the winner of the Grade 3 Withers in 2015, returned from a 16-month layoff to win a second-level allowance race at Belmont by 1 1/2 lengths.

Trainer Todd Pletcher felt a race like the Alydar, for horses who have not won a graded stakes this year, was a better spot to run him than Saturday’s Grade 1 Whitney.

Far From Over drew post 2 and will be ridden by John Velazquez under the top weight of 123 pounds.

Among his opponents will be Mylute, who finished second in this race last year when in Pletcher’s barn. Now with Ralph Nicks, Mylute is coming off an allowance win at Belmont on June 17.

Touchofstarquality, second to the Pletcher-trained Comfort in the State Dinner Stakes, is back in this spot. Also entered were Baccelo, who won an off-the-turf allowance here last Sunday, Honorable Duty, Island Town, Royal Posse, and Natchez.