Mucho, who returned from a nearly six-month layoff to win a six-furlong allowance on Friday at Gulfstream, will remain around one turn for now and would make his next start going seven furlongs in the Grade 3, $250,000 Bay Shore at Aqueduct on the undercard of the Wood Memorial on April 6 at Aqueduct, trainer Bill Mott said Monday.

Asked if that takes Mucho off the Derby trail, Mott replied, “That’s a fair assessment.”

“Right now the plan is to go in the Bay Shore on Wood day,” he said. “I’m getting no pressure from the ownership group to go to the Derby. We’ve discussed it, and the Bay Shore is definitely the first option.”