Tuscan Evening Wires Santa Ana

Photo: Cynthia Lum / Eclipse Sportswire

The firm Southern California turf has brought out the best in Tuscan Evening (Ire), who won the Santa Ana Handicap (G2) on Sunday at Santa Anita Park to improve to nine wins in 13 starts since she was shipped from Europe to the Golden State.

Winless in 11 starts in England and Ireland to begin her career, Tuscan Evening blossomed after she joined the stable of Jerry Hollendorfer at the start of her four-year-old campaign last year. She won five of her first six starts in Southern California, including the Royal Heroine Mile Stakes (G2) at Hollywood Park, and has become a star female on the grass with graded stakes victories from 6 1/2 furlongs to 1 1/8 miles.

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