Take Charge Indy has returned better than ever (Churchill Downs/Reed Palmer Photography)

Take Charge Indy, six-length winner of the Grade 2 Alysheba on Kentucky Oaks Day, will make his next start in the Grade 1, $500,000 Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs on June 15, according to trainer Pat Byrne.

Take Charge Indy's win in the Alysheba was his first since capturing the Florida Derby in March 2012. In the Kentucky Derby, he finished 19th of 20 and came out with a bone chip in his left front ankle, which was removed.

"His win in the Alysheba was vindication for everyone involved, including the horse," Byrne stated. "It was almost a year to the day when he got hurt running in the Derby and then he came back and ran like that.

"Numbers wise, his race in the Alysheba was off the charts. I always knew he could be that kind of a horse. You can look back at what I said about him over the winter. I said, 'At the end of the day, this is probably the most talented horse I've ever trained,' and I've had my hands on a couple of good ones."

Two of Byrne's most notable horses are 1997 Horse of the Year Favorite Trick and Awesome Again, who triumphed in the 1998 Breeders' Cup Classic.

Fort Larned will seek to get back on the winning track in the Stephen Foster (Breeders' Cup Ltd.)

In addition to winning the Breeders' Cup Classic, Awesome Again also captured the Whitney Handicap, Stephen Foster Handicap, Saratoga Breeders' Cup Handicap and the Hawthorne Gold Cup.

Take Charge Indy breezed four furlongs in :51 over Churchill Downs' fast dirt on Saturday in his first work since the Alysheba. He is scheduled to work five furlongs this Saturday or Sunday with jockey Rosie Napravnik aboard. Byrne said Take Charge Indy will work shortly after the track opens for training at 6 a.m. (EDT).

Should Take Charge Indy win the Stephen Foster, it would be the third victory in the race for Byrne, who won back-to-back runnings in 1997-98 with City by Night and Awesome Again.

One horse Take Charge Indy likely will face on June 15 is reigning Breeders' Cup Classic victor Fort Larned, who breezed five furlongs in 1:03 1/5 over Churchill Downs' fast main track on Sunday. Trainer Ian Wilkes confirmed following the work that Fort Larned is being pointed toward the Stephen Foster.

Fort Larned finished fifth as the 1-2 favorite in the Oaklawn Handicap in his most recent start on April 13. He stumbled at the start and lost jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. in his first start of 2013 in the Gulfstream Park Handicap.