Brothers Rombauer and Treasure Trove represent Fradkins in stakes

One day before Rombauer runs in the Preakness Stakes, his older half-brother Treasure Trove will contest the Grade 3 Pimlico Special.

The 3-year-old Rombauer, by Twirling Candy, and the 5-year-old gelding Treasure Trove, by Tapizar, were both bred in Kentucky by John and Diane Fradkin. They are third-generation products of that program, which began when John Fradkin purchased the Afleet mare Ultrafleet for $10,500 as a yearling in 1993.

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Ultrafleet produced millionaire California Flag, who was co-campaigned by the Fradkins. His eight stakes victories included the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint. Ultrafleet also produced Grade 3 winner Cambiocorsa, the dam of two other graded winners and the granddam of European Horse of the Year Roaring Lion.

From this mare also came the unraced Cowboy Cal mare Cashmere, dam of four winners from as many starters, including Cono, a stakes-placed homebred for the Fradkins. The couple sold Treasure Trove, who was a $45,000 buyback at the Keeneland November sale as a weanling; he later sold for $10,000 as a juvenile. Treasure Trove, second in the 2020 Owner Appreciation Cup at Delta, races for Paradise Farms and David Staudacher. He was most recently fifth in the Grade 3 Ben Ali at Keeneland, but beaten less than a length in a blanket finish.

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Meanwhile, Grade 1-placed juvenile Rombauer carried the Fradkins’ colors to victory in the El Camino Real Derby in February at Golden Gate to earn a berth into the Preakness. After finishing third in the Grade 2 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland last month, he was saved for this race.