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Second Of June

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Louis Quatorze - Whow (Spectacular Bid)
Dark bay or brown colt - Born On: 6.02.2001

Owner: Barbara Cesare

Trainer: Bill Cesare

Jockey: Cornelio Velasquez

Breeder: Lambholm & Eugene Felcher (FL)

February 5: worked one mile in 1:41.60, breezing over a fast track at Calder

Trainer Bill Cesare has said that the Fountain Of Youth (GII), at Gulfstream Park Feb. 14, is going to be Second of June's next start.

Graded Earnings $110,000

Race Record 7-4-2-0

Originally named Gaudy

Renamed for his birthday, which he shares with his trainer

Bought by trainer Cesare for his mother, Barbara, for $7,500 at the Ocala mixed sale in January '03

Second Of June News: Second Of June is declared off the Derby trail by his trainer Bill Cesare after the colt suffers an injury in the Fountain Of Youth (GII)

Second Of June News: Second Of June Takes Gulfstream's Holy Bull Stakes

Won the What A Pleasure Stakes at Calder on December 13, beating the highly regarded Silver Wagon by five lengths

Won an entry level allowance race, going one mile, at Calder on November 3

Finished second in the Foolish Pleasure Stakes at Calder on September 20

Finished sixth, beaten 10 1/4 lengths, in the Seacliff Stakes at Calder on August 30

Broke his maiden in his first lifetime start, going seven furlongs at Calder on August 9

Ran second, beaten a neck by Read The Footnotes, in the Fountain Of Youth (GII) at Gulfstream Park Feb. 14

January 17: won the 1 1/16 mile Holy Bull Stakes (GIII) by 2 3/4 lengths at Gulfstream Park, defeating Silver Wagon for the second consecutive time

Coming Derby Week!

Second of June is by Louis Quatorze, winner of the Preakness (GI) in stakes record time and earner over $2 million in his career. He was a versatile racehorse, winning at distances from six furlongs to 1 3/16 miles. He was also second in the ten furlong Breeders' Cup Classic (GI), where he lost by a nose to Alphabet Soup. Finishing just another neck back in third in that thriller was Cigar. Louis Quatorze is inbred to several classic stallion lines in his fourth generation, including Nearco, Native Dancer, Mahmoud, and Bold Ruler. Also, in his third generation on his dam's side is Shenanigans, dam of three stakes winners, including the immortal Ruffian. As a sire, Louis Quatorze has three crops of racing age, with his best performer being Repent, winner of the Louisiana Derby (GII) and the Kentucky Jockey Club (GII), who was also an early favorite for the 2002 Kentucky Derby before injury knocked him off the Derby trail. Whow, the dam of Second of June, won seven of 25 lifetime starts, including two stakes wins. She is the dam of Jack Flash, runner-up in the Jim Beam Stakes (GII), and she is a half-sister to three stakes winners. Although Second of June has a dosage index of 4.33, over the 4.00 threshhold theoretically needed to win the Derby, the presence of many classic winners, including Man O' War in his direct tail-female line, suggest that he should have plenty of stamina to get the Derby distance.

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