HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Jockey Luis Saez put an exclamation point on a five-win afternoon when he guided Never Surprised to an easy and very popular 6 1/4-length victory over Yes This Time and 10 other overmatched 3-year-olds in Sunday’s $100,000 Tropical Park Derby at Gulfstream Park. Never Surprised, who entered the 1 1/16-mile Tropical Park Derby off a similarly one-sided victory in the Gio Ponti Stakes four weeks earlier at Aqueduct, broke alertly and sped right to the lead, as expected, under Saez. A son of Constitution owned by Repole Stable, Never Surprised controlled the pace while prompted early by longshot Lamplighter Jack, readily shook clear before six furlongs, settled into the stretch with a commanding advantage and was never threatened. Yes This Time, winner of the Grade 3 Kent Stakes at Delaware Park earlier this season, finished best of the others down the center of the strip to nip Queen’s Plate winner Safe Conduct by a nose to be second-best. :: Join DRF Bets and play the races with a $250 First Deposit Bonus. Click to learn more. Never Surprised, who has won four times while never worse than second in seven career starts, covered the firm course in 1:40.39 and returned $3.00. Winning trainer Todd Pletcher, who also sent out the impressive 2-year-old debut winner American Icon with Saez up earlier in the day, was not in attendance on Sunday. “I rode this horse one other time (second-place finish in Grade 3 Saranac) and he was pretty green, he was getting out,” Saez said. “But today he was pretty good. Todd did an amazing job with this horse. He broke from the gate pretty quick, was running pretty great, I was really excited about the way he ran today. I had a lot of horse. I never really had to ask him or overdo it. It was an easy race for him.” As for his five-win afternoon the day after Christmas, Saez said, “it was an amazing day, it was great, my family was here, that was my happiness, too. Great job by my agent and everybody who supported me and gave me the opportunity to ride these good horses.”   Bipartisanship wins Tropical Park Oaks Bipartisanship overcame traffic issues at the top of the stretch and finished best of all under jockey Paco Lopez to register a half-length decision over Stunning Princess as a 19-1 outsider in the $100,000 Tropical Park Oaks for 3-year-old fillies. Woodbine invader Lady Speightspeare finished third while racing greenly on several occasions as the 6-5 favorite. Bipartisanship, who lagged off a pedestrian pace before finishing seventh making his stakes debut last month in Aqueduct’s Winter Memories Stakes, was rated near the rear of the nine-horse field during the early running before advancing to closer contention while saving ground on the second turn. Bipartisanship, an English-bred daughter of Bated Breath, appeared to be in trouble when taking up sharply after being pinched back upon settling into the stretch, but recovered to finish full of run once finding a hole between horses a furlong from the wire.     Stunning Princess raced mid-pack, swung five wide into the stretch, finished strongly outside rivals but could not match strides with the winner to the wire. Lady Speightspeare, perfect in four previous outings including an easy victory in the Grade 2 Bessarabian over the synthetic strip at Woodbine in her previous start, fended off several early challenges before succumbing grudgingly to finish third, a neck behind Stunning Princess despite jumping tire tracks early and drifting out several paths into the stretch. Bipartisanship’s final clocking of 1:40.61 for 1 1/16 miles was just .22 seconds slower than Never Surprised, who covered the same distance winning the Tropical Park Derby earlier in the day. She paid $40.00. “I was a little worried at the top of the stretch, it looked like Paco had nowhere to go, but it all worked out,” trainer Graham Motion said. “I think she was much the best. She didn’t have much of a trip.” Bipartisanship gave Motion his second win in the Tropical Oaks. He also won the race with an even bigger outsider, the 36-1 Ultra Brat, in 2016. “When she came to me, she was already stakes-placed as a maiden,” said Motion, who trains Bipartisanship for Fortune Racing LLC. “The day she ran in New York she just walked out of the gate, but she won very impressively at Laurel. She has done things very nicely.”