Derby clocker report7/11/2023 ![]() Sano’s horsemanship has helped him build a new life in the United States. He was held by his captors for more than a month, until the ransom came. Renowned as the all-time leading trainer in Venezuela, Sano was forced to leave his homeland after he endured a terrifying kidnapping in 2009. “So from the beginning of time, we were looking for great things out of Simplification.” “Antonio called me 30 days after he had taken this horse…and he said this horse was very special. “Hats off to Antonio Sano on that,” Bobo said on the podcast. After he graduated to trainer Antonio Sano at Gulfstream Park, the report card was even more glowing. Simplification acted like a classy colt in his early education, on Bobo’s farm as well as with the de Merics. Those X-rays turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Tami Bobo /WNiqj7Rhab- Ron Flatter March 18, 2022īobo decided to hold onto the colt, rather than risk a likely loss on investment. Hear her thoughts about the trail on the Racing Pod. She owns Fountain of Youth winner Simplification. ![]() SIMPLY PUT #TamiBobo & her husband Fernando de Jesús buy & sell Thoroughbreds in Florida. It’s just part of the growing pains in young horses.” “He had minor sesamoiditis,” Bobo told Ron Flatter in an interview aired on his March 18 podcast. That was minor in itself, but any such imperfection will put off potential buyers. When the young Simplification was X-rayed ahead of potential sales engagements, he was found to have a bit of sesamoiditis. Bobo ended up giving him more time and thinking of the two-year-old sales. ![]() Simplification could have advanced to the yearling auctions. “Just the way he was moving, and the attitude he has, is different from a lot of these babies.” Some horses separate themselves from the others. “He showed when he was a baby that he was a little different than most horses,” de Jesus said. ![]() Bobo and her husband, Fernando de Jesus, have another vehicle for their younger prospects, weanlings slated for resale – First Finds, the program that yielded Simplification.ĭe Jesus observed that just as human beings are different, so horses have individuality that you can discern if you pay attention. Take Charge Indy was a product of Bobo’s Secure Investments, the banner for her yearling-to-juvenile ventures. He bounced back later in the season, and at four, he added the Alysheba (G2) to his resume on 2013 Kentucky Oaks Day. Take Charge Indy tried the Kentucky Derby, but was injured en route to a 19th-place finish. She would sell him to Chuck and Maribeth Sandford, and watch him win the 2012 Florida Derby (G1). Applying her skills to Thoroughbreds for the past 12 years, she had high-profile success right off the bat with Take Charge Indy.Īlso a private purchase after he failed to sell as a 2010 Keeneland September yearling, Take Charge Indy was developed by Bobo into a promising juvenile. There Bobo, who has a longstanding relationship with the de Merics, would purchase him privately with a view toward resale.īobo’s equestrian background was initially with Arabians and Quarter Horses. Led out unsold, the yet-unnamed youngster returned home to Ocala, under Tristan and Valerie’s care. Consigned by Taylor Made, as his dam had been, the colt didn’t reach his reserve price when bidding stopped at $50,000. As a weanling that fall, he turned up in the Bluegrass again, as the Weiners were selling him at Keeneland November. He would accompany his dam to her home state of Kentucky, where Simply Confection had a date with Mendelssohn. Simply Confection delivered her bay colt on February 28, 2019.
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