ftboa.com • Tuesday & Wednesday • April 20 & 21, 2021 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION FLORIDA’SDAILYRACINGDIGEST Cezanne Returns to Run In This Issue: Rosario to Ride Rock Your World in Lights Out to Take Kona Gold Kentucky Derby BY SANTA ANITA Bubbles On Ice Pops a Champagne PRESS OFFICE________________ Performance in Memories of Silver ARCADIA, CA—Purchased for a Espinoza Wins Two in Storybook whopping $3,650,000 at Fasig-Tipton Florida Sale at Gulfstream Park in Comeback 2019 from the late J.J. Crupi’s New Castle Farm consignment by M.V. Antonacci Enjoying Change of Pace Magnier and idle since Aug. 1, the Bob Baffert-trained Cezanne came Mott Duo Heads Field of 12 back to the races in a massive way on Sunday at Santa Anita, as he rallied Gulfstream Park Charts into a blistering pace and came away with a nine-and-three-quarters-length Tampa Bay Downs Charts victory over odds-on favorite Brickyard Ride. With leading man Flavien Prat picking up his fourth win Florida Stallion Progeny List on the day and his second stakes score, Cezanne, a 4-year-old colt by Florida Breeders’ List Curlin, smoked home in 1:14.71 for six-and-a-half furlongs. Wire to Wire Business Place Taken in-hand out of the gate while stablemate Ax Man chased Brickyard Ride through a quarter- Featured Advertisers mile fraction of :21.18, Cezanne was Covert Appraisal Services next to last in a field of four at the rail Florida Department of Agriculture and moved into contention around the Fred Burton Paving far turn while well within himself. With Prat sitting motionless to the FTBOA five sixteenths pole, Cezanne fairly Journeyman Stud sailed by Brickyard Ride turning for Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply home and won in sensational fashion Ocala Stud as Baffert picked up his second win Peterson Smith on the day. RiceHorse Stables “It worked out well,” Prat said Seminole Feed after winning with him for the third Showcase Properties time in four mounts. “We had a fast Cezanne/BENOIT PHOTO Six K’s Training & Sales See KONA GOLD on page 3 Back to Top Page 3 Kona Gold Continued from COVER pace in front of us and we were able to save ground. He gave me a good kick when I asked him. He ran really nice.” Fourth in the two turn Shared Belief Stakes at Del Mar Aug. 1, Cezanne, in his second career stakes assignment, was the sec- ond choice at 9-5 and paid $5.80 to win. “We knew there was going to be a hot pace,” Baffert assistant Jimmy Barnes said. “Not sure how fast, but it ended up being fast, and you know Cezanne just ate them up. [Prat] gave him a wonderful ride and Bob had him ready. With the races coming up this spring and sum- mer, we should be look- ing really good with Cezanne.” Owned by Mrs. John Magnier, Michael B. Tabor, Derrick Smith and St. Elias Stable, Cezanne, who is out of the Bernardini mare Achieving, Cezanne now has three wins Flavien Prat/BENOIT PHOTO from four starts and with the winner’s take of $60,000, increased his earnings to $123,000. Brickyard Ride, who set similarly fast splits in winning the seven furlong San Carlos Stakes (G2) here on March 6, was unable to notch his third consecutive stakes win, but stayed gamely for the place, finishing a-length-and-quarter better than Fight On, while Ax Man checked in fourth and last. With a training double Sunday, Baffert has 32 wins through 50 racing days, two better than Phil D’Amato. Prat now has 89 wins, 38 clear of Juan Hernandez. Prat’s 16 stakes wins put him six in front of Umberto Rispoli. Tizamagician Romps as Heavy Favorite in Tokyo City An attentive second to the quarter pole, the Richard Mandella- trained Tizamagician took charge from there as he romped to a massive nine-length win in Sunday’s $100,000 Tokyo City Cup (G3) at Santa Anita. Ridden by Flavien Prat, the 4-year-old colt by Tiznow got a marathon mile-and-one-half in 2:32.45. With a backstretch start and a short run to the far turn, Edwin Maldonado, aboard Zestful, gunned his mount to the lead from his outside post, with Tizamagician content to sit a close second for the first mile-and-a-quarter through leisurely quarter-mile splits of :24.12, :47.87, 1:13.01 and 1:38.66. “I wanted the other horse to clear me, because you can’t take a hold of my horse,” Prat said after winning his third Tokyo City Cup. “He settled very nice and it looks like a mile-and-a-half is a great distance for him.” See TOKYO CITY on page 5 Back to Top Distorted Humor – Delta Princess, by A.P. 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Owned by racing syndicate MyRacehorse and Spendthrift Farm, LLC, Tizamagician picked up $60,000 for the win, increasing his earnings to $287,851. With the win, Tizamagician, who is out of the Dixie Union mare Magic Union, improved his overall mark to four wins with six seconds in 16 career efforts. “Not only does [the MyRacehorse syndicate] create people to own a piece of the horse, but they all have friends and the idea is, if they get their friends, they get people into racing and that’s what we need,” Mandella said after he too collected his third career win in the Tokyo City Cup. “We need people here, it’s not the same without them. It’s so strange to win races and nobody is here to cheer and celebrate with. It means everything in the world that people are here.” Off as the second choice at 7-2, Zestful was easily sec- ond, finishing two-and-three-quarters lengths in front of Lure Him In in third. Lure Him In finished 12 lengths in front of Ronamo followed by Multiplier. Racing resumes Friday at Santa Anita with first post time for a nine-race card at 1 p.m. PDT. Tizamagician/BENOIT PHOTO Back to Top Back to Top Page 7 Rosario To Ride Rock Your World in Kentucky Derby PRESS RELEASE ____________________________________ for this race, so you know, we have to live with it and In a development that had been rumored earlier in the week, go forward. Steve Andersen of Daily Racing Form reported early Saturday “We think with [Joel’s] evening that John Sadler had confirmed Joel Rosario would experience over the track, replace Umberto Rispoli aboard Runhappy Santa Anita Derby and just my relationship (G1)-winner Rock Your World in the Kentucky Derby May 1. with him and these owners In an interview on Thoroughbred Los Angeles radio Sunday [Hronis Racing, LLC and morning, Sadler acknowledged the difficult decision to make a Talla Racing, LLC], this rider change was his. gives us our strongest posi- “Let’s be very clear here, I was rooting for [Bob Baffert’s] tion. So, this is what we’re Concert Tour to win the [April 10] Arkansas Derby (G1) and going to do. I would love [then] this is all a non-conversation,” Sadler said. “We decided to for somebody to look this wait until after the Concert Tour race to see what was gonna hap- up. Am I the trainer that pen and nobody could’ve predicted [a disappointing third place Joel Rosario has won the finish], really. I mean, he was one to five or whatever and then he most races for in his career? didn’t run on. I think so. We were winning “So, when Joel came available—you know, these are agonizing titles together at Del Mar decisions and not easy. I want to be very clear, I think the world and if you say, ‘Okay, John Sadler/BENOIT PHOTO of Rispoli and I think the world of his riding. He’s a terrific rider Rosario with Chad Brown or Rosario with Todd Pletcher, which on our circuit and he’s been a great addition to California and will trainer has the most wins with this jock?’ I think it’s me. continue to be. But, I had to make a call and this is the call I made. “I’ll be shocked if it isn’t. One of the great stats in racing his- History will tell whether I’m right or wrong. Things could go bad, tory is Russell Baze and Jerry Hollendorfer.