After being transferred to race in Dubai he emerged as a top-class middle-distance performer as a five-year-old, taking the second and third rounds of the Al Maktoum Challenge before returning to Europe to win the Magnet Cup, Spreti-Rennen and Irish Champion Stakes.
[2] His dam Reprocolor won the Lancashire Oaks and became one of Meon Valley's foundation mares: her other descendants have included Colorspin, Izzi Top, Kayf Tara and Opera House.
In September he returned to finish sixth at Doncaster and then won a handicap at Pontefract Racecourse, beating the favourite Bold Stroke by one and a half lengths.
After being restrained by Hind in the early stages he took the lead in the final furlong and won "readily" by a neck from the three-year-old Midnight Legend (winner of the King George V Stakes).
[8] In August the horse finished second to Urgent Request when favourite for the Rose of Lancaster Stakes and was then sent to Germany to contest the Group 3 Spreti-Rennen over 2000 metres at Baden-Baden.
[9] Mick Kinane took over from Hind when Cezanne was stepped up in class for the Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes over ten furlongs at Leopardstown Racecourse on 10 September.
[10] For his final run of the season Cezanne was sent to the United States for the Breeders' Cup Classic on the dirt track at Churchill Downs on 5 November and finished ninth of the fourteen runners behind Concern.
In the Dubai Duty Free (then run on dirt) seventeen days later he proved no match for the American challenger Key of Luck but came home second of the fourteen runners.