OZONE PARK, N.Y. – He must be too legit to quit on. Legit, a winner of his only two career starts, returns to the races off a 630-day layoff for owner Mike Repole and trainer Todd Pletcher in a second-level allowance that serves as the feature on Thursday’s eight-race card at Aqueduct. Legit is a son of Curlin whom Repole purchased as a yearling for $125,000 at the Keeneland September auction in 2016. Repole bought Legit two days after he and Vinnie Viola purchased another son of Curlin for $410,000. That colt turned out to be Vino Rosso, the 2019 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner and champion older male. Speaking of Legit, Repole said, “I’m hoping he’s the best son of Curlin I ever owned in my life. My other Curlin sons have lost races, sometimes they’ve been disqualified for no reason.” Obviously, Repole was referring to Vino Rosso having been disqualified from first-place in the Jockey Club Gold Cup last fall. Legit debuted on April 19, 2018 – 12 days after Vino Rosso won the Wood Memorial – winning a one-mile maiden race by 7 1/4 lengths at Gulfstream Park. On May 17, in the slop at Pimlico, Legit won a first-level allowance going 1 1/16 miles by four lengths. In both races, Legit had to be ridden along for a prolonged period of time by Tyler Gaffalione. Legit has been on and off the work tab sporadically since then. At one point, he went 11 months without a work. He breezed five times last fall over Belmont’s training track before falling off the work tab for another two months. He has worked eight times since Dec. 10 leading to this race. Repole said Legit had myriad issues, including a foot injury that forced Pletcher to take him out of training. “Good horse, lot of promise, lot of talent,” Repole said, adding that injuries are the “frustrating part of the game. Hey, he’s back, he’s sound, he’s training great.” Repole said the opportunity to run a one-turn mile first time back was the reason to ship Legit to Aqueduct. The race offered at Gulfstream was 1 1/8 miles. Over the last five years, Pletcher has 32 wins from 82 starts with horses returning from a layoff of six months or greater. One of those wins came with Far From Over, the 2015 Withers winner, who returned from a 503-day layoff to win a 1 1/16-mile allowance at Belmont in June 2016. Legit drew the rail Thursday in the six-horse field and will be ridden by Junior Alvarado. If the forecast proves correct, there is a good chance the race will be run over a wet surface. Legit’s biggest competition figures to be Grumps Little Tots and Sea Foam. Grumps Little Tots, trained by Jason Servis, is coming off a second-place finish to Musical America in this condition. Sea Foam is a stakes-winning New York-bred trained by Christophe Clement who has not raced since finishing fourth in the Evan Shipman Stakes at Saratoga. Prioritize, a winner of his lone dirt start, albeit a $35,000 claimer, Awesome D J, and Seethisquick complete the field.