May Day Ready (Tapit) put it all together once again in her second career start to claim the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Fillies Stakes.
A winner on unveiling Aug. 4 at Saratoga as the second longest shot on the board in a roughly run maiden on the grass, she shipped south from that productive contest which also yielded Ballerina d'Oro (Medaglia d'Oro), who won an allowance earlier on the same card.
Sent away here at 9-2, she tracked the action in front of her from sixth and raced along from cover passing the five-sixteenths marker. Swung out for racing room leaving the bend, she ran down the leading pack as Bellavinino (Get Stormy) tried to rerally and She's Got Will (War of Will) lost ground. May Day Ready was 1 3/4 lengths ahead of the former while the latter claimed third.
“I used to ride the dam [Nemoralia]. I won a few stakes with her,” said Frankie Dettori. “[Trainer] Joe [Lee] used to work ride with me at Godolphin many moons ago. We go back a long time. Look, he doesn't have that many horses. For him to win a big race, I'm delighted.”
“[May Day Ready]'s still a bit green…. So that's good. If she can still do that and be green, that means there's room for improvement. I suspect she has a shot at the Breeders' Cup…. She's got that little turn of foot that makes the difference between being a horse and being a good horse.”
#6 May Day Ready and @FrankieDettori take the Juvenile Fillies S. at Kentucky Downs at 7/2 for trainer Joseph Lee! 🏆
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— TwinSpires Racing 🏇 (@TwinSpires) September 8, 2024
The bay daughter of Tapit is out of an accomplished racemare in Nemoralia, who won the G3 Sky Bet City of York Stakes and placed in the G1 Coronation Stakes in England, but also proved her prowess Stateside when she placed in the GI Frizette Stakes as well as the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. The fifth foal for her dam, May Day Ready is thus far her most accomplished as only one other elder sibling made it to the races and iis a winner. Nemoralia has a yearling filly by Munnings as her last registered offspring. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.
KENTUCKY DOWNS JUVENILE FILLIES S., $997,200, Kentucky Downs, 9-8, 2yo, f, 1mT, 1:35.36, fm.
1–MAY DAY READY, 120, f, 2, by Tapit
1st Dam: Nemoralia (GSW & G1SP-Eng, MGISP-USA, $544,633), by More Than Ready
2nd Dam: Alina, by Came Home
3rd Dam: Lady Heroine, by Sea Hero
($60,000 Ylg '23 FTKOCT; $325,000 2yo '24 OBSAPR). 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-KatieRich Stables LLC; B-White Birch Farm, Inc. (KY); T-Joseph R. Lee; J-Lanfranco Dettori. $588,300. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $643,300.
2–Bellavinino, 118, f, 2, Get Stormy–Lancelots Lady, by Gauntlet. ($11,000 Ylg '23 KEESEP; $15,000 RNA 2yo '24 OBSOPN). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O-C2 Racing Stable LLC; B-Mt. Joy Stables, Inc. (KY); T-Saffie A. Joseph, Jr.. $193,000.
3–She's Got Will, 120, f, 2, War of Will–Ruffenuff, by Dialed In. ($160,000 Ylg '23 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O-Gary Barber; B-Nicholas M. Lotz (KY); T-Mark E. Casse. $96,500.
Margins: 1 3/4, NK, HF. Odds: 4.58, 9.82, 6.66.
Also Ran: Mean Eileen, Sashay Away, Somethinabouther, Tigerish, Bonne Fille, Flip Flops, Sorry Not Sorry, Into the Fray, Playful Lass. Scratched: Bessie Abott (Ire), Knightofcaravaggio, Ramsey Pond, Sweet Treasure.
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