May day ready. (Adam Coglianese/NYRA)
NYRA press office
Saratoga Springs, NY – Katierich Stables’ May day ready Made each pole a winning under Jose Ortiz in the degree 2 of Saturday, $ 400,000 Lake Placid, a one-mile inner peat test for second-year Fillies, on Saratoga Race Course.
Trained by Joe Lee, the Tapit Bay started the action of deployment on a lucrative 14-race degree 1 Concepts Travers Day program with a powerful victory performed in stark contrast with its Rally-Neus attempts to make the grade in the grade 2 Jessamine in Keeneland in Keeneland.
Lee said he was not surprised to see May Day ready in advance.
“I left it to Jose, I said to him,” You decide what you want to do, “Lee said.” But I knew she would be fresh. I knew that if she got a clean break, with the horses who were there, if someone does not decide to go, she might just be in the lead. “
Eponine, with Irad Ortiz, Jr. Up, broke with the front together with 3-2 Mutuel Favorite Play with Fire before a sharp May day was ready, Post 3 with 9-5, took over to mark the opening quarter miles in 24.51 seconds on the sturdy foot.
May Day Ready showed the road down the rear tight with eponine tracking from second place along the HEG and Scharlaken sand in the third to the outside of the game with fire with cleaning flowers and warming at the back of the compact field.
The Flavien Prat-Pilotated game with fire went along the inside after the last turn, but there was no space behind Eponine and was shaken back by the turn when Scarlet Sands launched her clear run on the outside after half a miles in 49.16 with May Day Ready Still a comfortable leader.
“I should have done it differently,” said a frustrated prote.
May Day Ready reached three -quarters in 1: 13.39 and kicked for home when the game with Fire cut the corner, grabbed her ears and focused on the runaway leader while he rose to the inside of Eponine. But the well -prepared May Day Ready had enough in the tank to post the half length score in a recent period of 1: 35.70. Playing with fire completed the exact, with two lengths about eponin with Reining flowers, warming and scarlet sand that completes the order of finish.
“I asked her a little past the pole of three eighth, and she reacted nicely,” said Ortiz. “I knew that they had to get home in five to get her because I have so much horse the last eighth of a mile. I would come home at least six. Five and change, that is very difficult to do that. The other horse [Play With Fire made up] Ground but was not lucky. There was no pace. One horse had a whole game race. In 1:13 it is very difficult to catch up. “
Lee said that the comfortable splits in favor of his marefeulen worked.
‘You always hope so [the pace] Works that way, “Lee said.” You always hope they run home. I was happy to see 24 and change, 49 and change, clearly in the hope that she would run home. To be honest, she is a horse that loves competition. If she has a horse next to her, she will dig a little more than when she is alone. Jose sprinted away there [at the end]. “
May Day Ready won her first three starts and took her debut through a nose here last August with a tense of 25-1 for a score of 1 3/4 length in the youth fillings mentioned at Kentucky Downs. She succeeded her Jessamine score with a closure of 1 1/2 length second in the degree 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf in del Mar before she went to Japan, where she was off-the-sign in the 1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies group in Kyoto in December.
May Day Ready made her seasonal debut when the last of 3 in an off-the-turf edition of the Grade 3 Wonder again in June during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival in Saratoga in Saratoga again before an restless fourth last in the nine-Furlong Grade 1 Belmont Oaks here.
Lee indicated that May Day Ready could now point to class 3, $ 175,000 winter memories on 20 September in Belmont on the Big A with other potential options in Keeneland in the Nine-Furlong Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup on October 11 and the Valley Valley Valley Valley Valley.
“There is a race at aqueduct going,” Lee began. “If the owners do not decide to go into the QEII, there is a third week in Keeneland [G2 Valley View] That can be a possibility. ‘
Bred in Kentucky by White Birch Farm, May Day Ready Banked $ 220,000 in victory while she improves her record to 8-4-1-1. She returned $ 5.70 for a win of $ 2. She is placed from the multiple degree/group 1 more than ready-made mare Nemoralia, who was third in the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.
Live racing resumes on Sunday on Saratoga with a 10-race card with the $ 150,000 West Point presented by Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Race 8. First post is 13:10 Eastn.
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