Tuscan Sky has turned in performances suggestive of him being of graded stakes caliber, such as when he defeated eventual grade 1 winner Domestic Product in this summer’s ungraded Pegasus Stakes for 3-year-olds at Monmouth Park.
Yet in his two starts in graded company, he ran far below expectations, finishing seventh in the April 6 Wood Memorial Stakes (G2) and sixth in the July 20 Haskell Stakes (G1).
He now has another opportunity at the graded stakes level Dec. 21 in the $165,000 Harlan’s Holiday Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream Park. Coming off a second in the Nov. 3 Discovery Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack, the Spendthrift Farm-owned runner looms a contender for his Hall of Fame connections of Todd Pletcher and John Velazquez.
The gray and/or roan son of Vino Rosso worked a half-mile in a bullet :47.89 at Palm Beach Downs Dec. 14 with Major Dude , another Spendthrift Farm-owned Pletcher trainee who runs in the Fort…
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