Gr2 winner Prerequisite returned off nearly a one-year layoff to win her allowance comeback on closing day in Saratoga Springs.

The 4yo Upstart filly attended to the pace throughout the nine-furlong contest under Flavien Prat and won by 2 1/2 lengths with something left (video). Her reappearance came a day after 1/2 brother Stay Hot (Hard Spun) finished a smart 2nd in the Gr2 Del Mar Derby.

Both GSWs out of the Smart Strike mare Etsu were bred by Airdrie Stud.

Prerequisite had a short but highly progressive 3yo campaign, winning the Gr2 Wonder Again S. in her 3rd career start (photo), followed by a close 2nd in the Gr1 Belmont Oaks Invitational.

Bred by the late Michael Baum's Man o'War Farm, Etsu is full to MSW Homeland Security and descends direct from Virginia Kraft Payson matriarch Northern Sunset (Northfields).

The Smart Strike mare is dam of a 2yo Complexity colt and yearling full-brother to Prerequisite, both also bred by Airdrie.

NYRA photo.