Major Gain added to Lecomte probables

Grade 3 winner MAJOR GAIN (More Than Ready) breezed six furlongs in 1:14

2/5 over the fast main track at Gulfstream

Park Sunday morning in a move that left his trainer Wayne Catalano

pondering a quick trip to his native New Orleans to saddle the Gary and Mary West

colorbearer at Fair Grounds in Saturday's Lecomte S. (G3).

"He worked real good this morning," said Catalano, speaking from South

Florida shortly after Sunday's move. "I got him going five-eighths in a minute

flat and that's about what I wanted to see. Right now I'm leaning toward

bringing him over there. Now I've got to start looking around for a jockey."

Major Gain would be a major addition to this year's Lecomte, one of six

stakes races slated for Saturday's Road to the Derby Kickoff Day. The homebred was clearly best when he broke his maiden

in last fall's Arlington-Washington Futurity (G3) in Chicago, but then

finished fifth in the Breeders' Futurity (G1) at Keeneland in October after

being bumped solidly at the half-mile pole.