Tuscan Gold is possible to compete in the $2 million, Grade 1 Preakness Stakes on May 18 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
The post position draw for the Preakness is set for Monday, May 13, at 5:30 p.m. Post time for the Preakness is set for 6:50 p.m. on Saturday, May 18. NBC will televise the race.
Tuscan Gold will enter the Preakness off a third-place finish in the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby on March 23 at Fair Grounds.
Tuscan Gold
Color: Bay
Bred in: Kentucky
Sire: Medaglia d’Oro
Dam: Valadorna, by Curlin
Price tag: $600,000 at 2022 Keeneland September Yearling Sale
Owners: William Lawrence, Walmac Farm, Stonestreet Stables (Barbara Banke)
Trainer: Chad Brown
Jockey: Tyler Gaffalione
Record: 1-0-1 in three starts
Career earnings: $147,100
Last race: Third in Grade 2 Louisiana Derby on March 23 at Fair Grounds
Running style: Closer
Notes: Brown also entered Tuscan Gold in the Grade 3 Peter Pan Stakes at Aqueduct but made the call Thursday to go forward with the Preakness. … Brown has won the Preakness twice with colts who did not run in the Kentucky Derby and will look to accomplish the feat again with Tuscan Gold. Brown won with Cloud Computing in 2017 and Early Voting in 2022. … Tuscan Gold broke his maiden in his second career start, coming Jan. 31 at Gulfstream Park.
What they’re saying: “My first instinct was to always run in the Preakness,” Brown said. “I wanted to enter the Peter Pan to give myself some options. I wanted to look and survey the field and see who was actually going to show up in the Preakness. … At the end of the day, the reward is so much greater if he were to run well in the Preakness, going for a much bigger prize.”
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