Aqueduct | Race 6 | Post Time 2:17 p.m. (ET)     TimeformUS PPs are now available on drf.com. Go to shop.drf.com and use coupon code NYRATF23 to get one free TimeformUS card.    It’s pretty obvious that Overstep (#3) will be tough for this field to beat if he returns with an effort as good as his last race prior to the layoff. He earned a career-best 116 TiemformUS Speed Figure beating a strong field of New York-breds and isn’t really encountering a tougher field despite moving into open company. Yet this lightly raced 4-year-old has had trouble staying on the racetrack. He was off for 15 months prior to returning earlier this year, and now he’s been away for more than nine months since his last race. Todd Pletcher is known for excelling with these types, and while he does have a solid 25 percent win rate with horses returning from 180- to 360-day layoffs in dirt sprints, the ROI is just $1.44.  The biggest asset for the favorite might be his early speed, since the TimeformUS Pace Projector is predicting a scenario favoring front-runners. The horse shown pressing him on the Pace Projector is Dark Vector (#8), one of two Linda Rice trainees in here. This horse showed ability earlier in the season, but he’s never really developed since then and had little excuse to lose a weaker race last time after working out a good trip.      I much prefer the other Rice runner Power Seeker (#2), who exits the same Oct. 26 race at Keeneland. Both of these horses are claims, and Rice has done exceptionally well with this move. Over the past year, she is 28 for 63 (44 percent, $2.94 ROI) with horses first off the claim on dirt who also are racing at a different track than their prior start. That partially captures how well she has done with her claims from Kentucky, and this runner was picked up at the recent Keeneland meet. Power Seeker arguably should have won that last race, since he was reined in after trying to show speed and was closing best of all into a slow pace, with all blue color-coded fractions in TimeformUS past performances. I think he can do better second off the layoff, and I like the confident placement by Rice.