Racing in Dubai he contested the Al Maktoum Challenge, finishing fourth to Tamayaz in the first round on 11 February and second to the same horse in the third round on 10 March. 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. On returning to Europe he ran consistently without ever looking likely to recover his 1994 form. He finished sixth in the Premio Presidente della Repubblica at Milan in May, fifth in the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot in June and fourth in the September Stakes at Kempton in September. Cezanne was retired from racing and the end of the 1996 season and became a breeding stallion in Ireland. Standing at the Coolagown Stud in County Cork he proved to be infertile and produced no recorded foals. He was gelded in September 1998. In the late autumn of 1998 Cezanne joined the stable of Michael Roberts in Sussex and embarked on a new career as a National Hunt horse. After being beaten in his first two starts over obstacles he won a Novice hurdle race at Huntingdon Racecourse on 12 May 1999. He continued to compete in hurdle races for the next three seasons but never won again and ended his career by finishing unplaced in a handicap hurdle at Wincanton in November 2001.