Sunday TimeformUS Highlight Horse: Complex Music hindered by track bias last time

Aqueduct | Race 6 | Post Time 3:44 p.m. (ET)

The two horses likely to attract the most support in this conditioned claimer both have questions to answer. The more trustworthy of the two appears to be Good Money (#4), who makes his first start off the claim for Linda Rice. However, there are some questions surrounding this gelding as he drops despite coming off a victory. He had been in some very capable barns early in his career and has steadily tailed off, so it's fair to wonder if even Linda will get him to reverse that form trajectory.

Kid Billy (#5) is the other horse likely to attract support as he makes his first start for a tag. Yet it's hard to know what to expect from him as he returns from an 11-month layoff. His prior form obviously makes him a standout in this field, but there has to be a reason that he's dropping in for this $20k tag without even getting a shot at an allowance race after all this time away.

Wake Surf (#7) would be interesting to me if I had confidence that the track would be playing fairly on Sunday. That just hasn't been the case over the last week and a half, and it's just hard to see him avoiding a wide trip from this post. He does have prior races that would beat these, and he's protected with the waiver off a layoff.

My top pick is Complex Music (#2), who figures to run better than he did here 10 days ago when he was against the track profile on one of the first days of this current rail bias period at Aqueduct. Breaking from the outside post, he got caught wide every step of the way and didn't even run that badly to contest the lead until upper stretch before fading. He's clearly better than that, and I wouldn't even be surprised to see some improvement here as he makes his second start off the claim for the underrated Jimmy Ferraro barn.