Birth Date: Tuesday, July 24, 1956
Birth Place: New Orleans, La.

Career: Longtime top conditioner in Chicago won the 2006 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies with Dreaming of Anna and the 2009 BC Juvenile Fillies with She Be Wild. Dreaming of Anna finished third in the Old Hat and second in the Gaily Gaily on turf at Gulfstream in 2007 and retired in October 2008 with $2 million earned and 10 victories. Won the Arlington training title in 2010 for the ninth time in the last 11 years...Saddled Major Gain to victory in 2010 Arlington-Washington Futurity..Has won more than 2,000 races....Catalano also trained ‘Anna’s’ brother Lewis Michael, who won the Pat O’Brien at Del Mar. As a teenager an uncle sent him to the track to learn the game from Hall of Famer Jack Van Berg. He started out as an exercise rider before becoming a jockey. He won 1,792 races through a nine-year career that was cut short by knee problems. His first big star was 1997 Louisiana and Arkansas Derby winner Crypto Star. That colt would finish fifth in the Kentucky Derby. He has also trained graded-stakes winners Tamweel, Little Sucker and Cuzzy Bear.