HOLLENDORFER SEEKS MORE ROAD RICHES
Northern California’s Jerry Hollendorfer, who made a victorious trip to Delaware Park last Saturday, will seek more road riches this Saturday at Arlington Park when he sends out Tuscan Evening in the Grade 3 $150,000 Modesty Handicap and Dream Nettie in the Grade 2 $200,000 American Derby.
Hollendorfer captured the $263,200 Delaware Oaks at Delaware Park with his brilliant filly Blind Luck, who put her nose down on the wire to claim victory from Havre de Grace in a very tight photo finish. A winner of four Grade 1 stakes – including the Kentucky Oaks – Blind Luck boosted her career earnings to $1,578,712 with her triumph in the Grade 2 Delaware Oaks.
Tuscan Evening, a 5-year-old mare who is perfect in five stakes starts this year, will face five opponents in the Grade 2 Modesty, a 1 3/16-mile turf race for fillies and mares. Tuscan Evening earned her first Grade 1 stakes victory in her most recent outing when she defeated Forever Together by a half-length in the Gamely at Hollywood Park.
Tuscan Evening, an Irish-bred runner owned by William Deburgh, has won 11 of her 26 career starts and $1,049,408.
Dream Nettie is a one nine 3-year-olds entered in the American Derby, which will also be run at 1 3/16-miles on the turf. Owned in partnership by Deburgh, Hollendorfer and George Todaro, Dream Nettie won the 1 1/8-mile La Puente Stakes on the grass at Santa Anita before running second in the 1 1/16-mile Alcatraz Stakes on the lawn at Golden Gate Fields.
Hollendorfer will also be represented in stakes at Hollywood Park and Sacramento Saturday as his 3-year-old Skipshot will run in the Grade 2 $200,000 Swaps Stakes and his 4-year-old filly Broadway Hennessey will compete in the $75,000 California State Fair Sprint Handicap.
Fans can watch and wager on all the important stakes from around the county via simulcast at Golden Gate Fields.