Bezos resurfaces Sunday in Ellis Park allowance for new trainer

Bezos, who was a highly-touted 3-year-old this winter for trainer Bob Baffert, will make his first start since finishing last in the April 10 Lexington Stakes (G2) at Ellis Park on Sunday for new trainer Rodolphe Brisset.

Bezos is entered in a one-mile allowance/optional claiming event carded as the seventh race on Sunday's eight-race program at Ellis Park. Set to take on seven rivals, the Empire Maker colt will be ridden by Chris Landeros.

Bezos has worked six times at Keeneland for his comeback starting in mid-June. 

The hype-machine on Bezos was in overdrive this winter when the colt was made one of 23 individual betting interests in pool 2 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager in January - despite having never raced. He closed at 26-1. 

In his debut on Feb. 7, Bezos finished seventh of nine when going 6 1/2-furlongs on dirt against maidens at Santa Anita. He returned with a much-improved effort seven weeks later when stretched out to a mile at Santa Anita, taking the field wire-to-wire to win by 4 1/2 lengths under Flavien Prat. 

From there, it was straight into the Lexington at Keeneland, the final points-paying prep for the Kentucky Derby. Bezos was urged three-wide for the opening half-mile to stay within a couple lengths of the pace, but promptly dropped anchor and finished some 40 lengths behind winner King Fury 

Bezos was among three horses transferred from Baffert to Brissett in June in the aftermath of Medina Spirit's failed Kentucky Derby drug test. The others were Hozier, who won an Ellis Park allowance earlier this month; and Crystal Ball, who won Thistledown's Lady Jacqueline earlier this month and is entered in Sunday's $200,000 Shuvee (G3) at Saratoga. 

Bezos is owned in partnership by SF Racing, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables, Stonestreet Stables, Goloconda Stables, Siena Farm and Robert E. Masterson. He was a $400,000 auction purchase as a yearling.