KatieRich Stables LLC's May Day Ready (Tapit), who proved narrowly best in a three-way photo in Friday's 'Win and You're In' GII Jessamine Stakes at Keeneland, will return to the Belmont Park base of trainer Joe Lee to prepare for the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.
“I guess we will go back to New York; she trains well over that track,” Lee said. “Probably ship in the next few days. She lost the right front shoe, so we are going to take a good look at it here. She seems fine–the shoe came off cleanly. Not sure when it happened.”
Lee said he hopes he can find the missing shoe as a keepsake.
“I know my kids would want a set of four instead of three,” he joked.
Lee trains fewer than 10 horses out of his barn at Belmont and has a long history of galloping and assisting with top-class gallopers. After working for D. Wayne Lukas for a time, Lee in 1993 began a long association with Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum with several trainers, including Kiaran McLaughlin.
Lee, his wife Susie and his four children celebrated Friday's victory at Don Jockey restaurant in nearby Midway, Kentucky, with KatieRich principles Larry and Karen Doyle. Doyle also brought the traditional box of donuts to the barn Saturday morning.
May Day Ready is now perfect in three starts, having won her maiden at first asking at Saratoga Aug. 4 and the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Fillies' Stakes on Sept. 8.
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