Antonio Sano may get a chance to improve on Gunnevera’s 2017 Kentucky Derby fifth-place finish with the Florida-bred Simplification. A $50,000 RNA as a weanling at the Keeneland November sale, Simplification is by the exciting young sire Not This Time, a son of Giant’s Causeway. His stakes-placed dam Simply Confection, by Candy Ride, is out of the stakes-placed Ballado’s Halo. A half-sister to champion mare Ashado and Grade 1 winner Sunriver, Ballado’s Halo is also the second dam of Canadian stakes winner Inflexibility. There’s a reasonable chance Simplification will stay 1 1/4 miles.

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