Winter Sunset impressive in Indiana

Winter Sunset came out of her impressive win Wednesday in the $200,000 Indiana Grand Stakes in good shape, but trainer Wayne Catalano said there are no specific plans yet for this impeccably bred daughter of Tapit and Winter Memories.

“We were happy with the way she ran, and she came out of it well, but I don’t really have plans at the moment,” Catalano said. “We’ll look over the options.”

Catalano disputed the idea that a cutback from longer middle distances to a mile Wednesday pushed the filly to a career peak. Catalano said getting the filly farther off the early pace produced a more professional performance.

“That was the setup we’d been talking about for her,” he said.

◗ Chicago-based apprentice jockey Skyler Spanabel will be out until next spring after fracturing her arm in a gate accident Sept. 1. Spanabel had surgery to repair the injury on Sept. 2 and has returned to Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Mich., for her sophomore year of college. Spanabel, 19, has four winners from 120 mounts in 2019.