Catalano's International Festival of Racing runners exit races in good order

Catalano's International Festival of Racing runners exit

races in good order

Trainer Wayne

Catalano's three charges from the International Festival of Racing at

Arlington have all

exited their races well, according to assistant trainer Fernando Canteria.

Gary

and Mary West's Highball was fifth in the Secretariat,

Team Valor International's Infinite Magic

ran eighth in the American St. Leger and Hit the Board Stable's I'm Already Sexy

finished sixth in the

Beverly D.

"Highball came out good," Canteria said. "All three of them came out OK -- that's the main thing. Wayne talked to (the Wests)

after the race and they talked about taking a little more time to develop him.

He was training well going in. We're going to go step-by-step with him."

Highball -- the most inexperienced horse in the field -- was

stepping up to a Grade 1 only two races out of the maiden ranks, but had

impressed many with his talent. The son of Lemon Drop Kid, who was third in the

American Derby prior to his Secretariat run, looks to be a horse to

watch under the patient guidance of Catalano.

Infinite Magic, making his first start for Catalano since

being transferred from Team Valor's former private trainer Rick Mettee, ran well

for the majority of the American St. Leger before folding in the stretch.

"It was a little too far for him," Canteria explained. "He was right there

and looked like he was going to be OK for a minute. He realized it was too far

for him and said 'that's it for me' near the end of the race. We'll find him a

different spot."

I'm Already Sexy was a close sixth behind three Grade/Group

1 winners, a consequential Grade 1 winner in victress Euro Charline and multiple

Illinois champion La Tia in the Beverly D. while beaten less than three lengths.

"(I'm Already) Sexy came out really good," Canteria stated. "Wayne was happy.

(Owner) Anna (Seitz, principal of Hit the Board Stable) was happy. She only got

beat about two lengths and she got a good number. She looks good and is back on

the track and feels good."

Next moves for all three are yet to be determined, but one

can surmise that with Catalano now back at the barn after recovering from a bad

bout of pneumonia, decisions will be made soon.

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