Travers winner Catholic Boy worked five furlongs in 1:01.08 Sunday morning over Belmont Park's main track, a drill that has him back on schedule for the Breeders' Cup Classic on Nov. 3 at Churchill Downs after he missed a workout last week due to a temperature.
The best part of the work, which was done in company with the graded-stakes winner March, was the gallop out. Jockey Javier Castellano asked him ever so slightly past the wire and he left March while galloping out six furlongs in 1:13.59 and seven furlongs in 1:26.53.
“I thought it was a really well-executed work by Javier,” trainer Jonathan Thomas said. “I wanted him to sit right off March’s hip, relax then by the quarter, really join in and then hit the wire in front and go ahead and gallop out. I thought it was good."
Thomas said Catholic Boy will leave for Churchill Downs on Tuesday and have a workout there next weekend.
Meanwhile, several of Chad Brown's Breeders' Cup horses for turf races were forced to work on the dirt Sunday morning as the New York Racing Association canceled turf works this week.
Among those in action Sunday morning were Sistercharlie (Filly & Mare Turf), who went a half-mile in 48.56 seconds in company with Uni; Newspaperofrecord (Juvenile Fillies Turf), who went a half-mile in 48.54 seconds in company with Significant Form; and Robert Bruce (Turf) who went a half-mile in 49.15 seconds in company with Projected.
Will have full write-ups on the works posted later on drf.com.