Shanghai Bobby launches comeback in Belmont overnight stakes

Juvenile champion Shanghai Bobby will

make his first start in more than five months when he competes in the $100,000

Aljamin overnight stakes on Friday at Belmont Park.

The Aljamin, carded as the 3RD race, will be contested at 6 1/2

furlongs and is restricted to three-year-olds.

Unbeaten in five starts as a two-year-old, including a win in

the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, Shanghai Bobby seeks his first victory of

2013 following a runner-up effort in Gulfstream Park's Holy Bull in January and

a fifth-placing

in the Florida Derby on March 30. In April, the Harlan's Holiday colt was diagnosed with a

pelvic stress fracture that forced him to miss the Triple Crown.

With a strong performance on Friday, Shanghai Bobby could

target November races like the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile at Santa Anita or

the Cigar Mile Handicap at Aqueduct, trainer Todd Pletcher

said.

"We're very pleased with the way he has been coming back,"

Pletcher said of Shanghai Bobby, who has been training at Saratoga.

"He's grown up a bit, and it'd be good to get him started on a positive note.

The first thing we need to see is a solid run from him on Friday."