ARCADIA, Calif. - Spring break began on Sunday for Tiznow, a day after the 2000 Horse of the Year won the $1 million Santa Anita Handicap.

	Tiznow will be given a chance to heal his right front foot, which has been bothered by quarter cracks.

With his next goal, the $500,000 Californian Stakes at Hollywood Park on June 10, more than three months away, Tiznow will have a light month in March, trainer Jay Robbins said.

Instead of a trip to Dubai for the $6 million World Cup on March 24, or the Oaklawn Handicap in April, Tiznow will be given a chance to heal his right front foot, which has been bothered by quarter cracks.

Robbins, along with Michael Cooper, who co-owns Tiznow with the children of the late Cecilia Straub-Rubens, has a blueprint for his campaign that includes races run under allowance conditions or weight-for-age races.

After the Californian, Tiznow is scheduled to run in the $750,000 Hollywood Gold Cup on July 1 and the Pacific Classic at Del Mar. One start, possibly in the Jockey Club Gold Cup, is likely before he tries to become the first two-time winner of the Breeders' Cup Classic at Belmont Park.

Tiznow has worn a patch to protect a quarter crack that has been present for nearly two months. A second crack, in the hoof wall, appeared on the last weekend of February. The cracks required constant attention from Robbins and farriers Steve Rodriguez and Buzz Fermin. Twice in the week before the race he shed a protective patch designed to protect the foot.

On Sunday, Robbins said Tiznow showed heat in his right foot, which was also present Saturday morning, before the race. Robbins said an abscess may surface in the near future.

"I think something will try to pop out at the hairline," he said. "He's got a sensitive spot. I hope we've got the time when the foot can grow, and if there is an abscess it will pop now.

"He's got a little heat, but [the foot] is cooler than it was. I don't know where the heat is coming from for him to be that sound. You don't normally see that. We'll take a look at the foot in a couple of days. We'll start tubbing it in hot water."

Tiznow's enthusiasm for training and racing, shown in his pre-race gallops late last week and his five-length win in the Big Cap, can make him difficult to handle, Robbins said. The 4-year-old Tiznow is likely to be given a small dose of tranquilizer before his exercise in coming weeks so he does not try to do too much.

"I'd like to try to let him walk for a week and then start jogging him," Robbins said. "The plan now is to wait for the Californian, which is a long way off. He's got such a tough constitution. It can be his undoing.

"Sometimes we have to walk for an hour before he goes to the track. But after he gallops, he's like a 10-year-old gelding."

A winner of 7 of 12 starts and $4.2 million, Tiznow had little trouble dispatching of 11 rivals in Saturday's Big Cap. He rated behind Wooden Phone for the first six furlongs, took the lead on the final turn, and won the sixth stakes race of his career by five lengths. His Beyer Speed Figure, 117, equaled the fastest of the year.

The Big Cap was Tiznow's first Grade 1 win since the Breeders' Cup Classic last November, but it did not come against a Grade 1 quality field. None of the 11 he faced on Saturday are Grade 1 winners on the main track in this country.

Bienamado, a Grade 1 winner on turf in the Hollywood Turf Cup last December, stumbled badly at the start, nearly unseating jockey Alex Solis. He finished ninth, 13 lengths behind Tiznow, in his first start on dirt.

Trainer Paco Gonzalez said Bienamado was not injured in the Big Cap and will return to turf, possibly in the $400,000 San Juan Capistrano Invitational Handicap over about 1 3/4 miles on April 14.

"We didn't learn anything," Gonzalez said. "He got hit in the tendon, but [the tendon] looked good. I thought he might have grabbed a quarter and when I got back I'd see a lot of blood, but there was nothing. We won't go back on the main track."

Tiznow was the topweight at 122 pounds in the Big Cap, which may be his last handicap of the year.