ARCADIA, Calif. - It is time for Tuscan Evening to take her show on the road. After winning her third straight race and ninth in 13 starts in the Santa Ana Handicap on Sunday, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said Tuscan Evening would make her next start on the Kentucky Derby undercard in the Grade 2, $250,000 Distaff Turf Mile at Churchill Downs on May 1.
But that race will be a means to an end. Tuscan Evening, 5, has won five graded stakes races, but has yet to win a Grade 1 race, something Hollendorfer and owner William de Burgh are intent on securing.