Spendthrift Farm’s Kentucky-bred Ted Noffey lived up to his heavily backed favoritism in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile on Future Stars Friday. Posting a one-length victory over Mr. A.P., Ted Noffey remains undefeated in four lifetime starts.

Trained by Todd Pletcher and ridden by John Velazquez, the precocious gray colt covered the mile and a sixteenth over a fast track in 1:42.25. The victory is the 16th overall for Pletcher and fifth in the Juvenile. For Velazquez, it is his 22nd World Championships victory and third in the Juvenile, all on Pletcher-trained horses.

“It pretty much unfolded like we thought it would,” said Todd Pletcher. “Just glad that he was able to keep finding more.”

The race figured to be a two-horse duel between the race favorite and the undefeated Brant. That is how it played out early on. Brant led the field of six through fractions of :23.46, :46.99 and 1:10.82 with Ted Noffey tracking just to his outside.

Approaching the head of the stretch, Ted Noffey drew on even terms and then pushed past in upper stretch only to have Brant battle back in the final eighth. In deep stretch, the winner put Brant away as Mr. A.P., who had been third all the way around, got past Brant to get second by a half-length. Brant held third.

Ted Noffey is a son of Into Mischief out of the Old Fashioned mare Streak of Luck. Now a three-time Grade 1 winner from four starts, the victory was worth $1,040,000 and increased his earnings to $1,658,763. The colt also won the Breeders’ Futurity (G1) at Keeneland and the Hopeful S. (G1) at Saratoga.