"I’m happy to get him back and run so well off of the layoff," Dutrow said. "At this point, I’m not ready to concede that his race in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile was attributable to the distance, but rather to the [synthetic] track.

"Training any three-year-old at this time of the year, you think about the Kentucky Derby (G1), so unless something develops to change my mind, the Florida Derby is likely where he’ll go next."