ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The Mark Casse-trained 3-year-old fillies Shifty and Ready to Battle look ready for action in Sunday’s featured eighth race at Woodbine, a seven-furlong allowance/optional-claiming race for nonwinners of two fillies and mares. Victorious in the Catch a Glimpse Stakes on the turf here in August, Shifty is nominated to the July 20 Woodbine Oaks. Unraced since finishing fourth as the favorite in the restricted Princess Elizabeth Stakes Nov. 30, the daughter of Medaglia d’Oro wintered in Ocala, Fla., and has been working fast on the Tapeta, including a bullet half-mile in 46.40 seconds May 2. Sahin Civaci, the 2024 Sovereign Award-winning jockey, will ride Shifty for D. J. Stable. Owned by last year’s Sovereign Award winner Gary Barber, Ready to Battle graduated second time out in August in a seven-furlong maiden special on Tapeta that was taken off the turf. She jumped right into a Grade 1 stakes in September, in the $502,500 Natalma, finishing a respectable fifth behind stablemates And One More Time, Vixen, and Nitrogen. Vixen and Nitrogen both subsequently won graded stakes in the United States and Nitrogen was eventually crowned Canadian champion 2-year-old filly. Ready to Battle was a distant fifth against males and the favored Shifty in the Grade 3 Grey in November. Exiting a five-month break April 5 at Gulfstream, she tracked the pace on the outside before flattening out to fourth in a 1 1/16-mile allowance on the grass. Victorious Starship Impulsive returned to win the Honey Ryder Stakes there. Ready to Battle, who breezed five furlongs in a bullet 59.80 here May 1, will be ridden by her sixth different jockey, the Hall of Famer Patrick Husbands. More Money Hunny is also coming off a Gulfstream outing, a runner-up finish in a $35,000 conditioned claimer going a mile on the grass Feb. 20. The 4-year-old earned valuable black type when a slow-starting third in the 2023 Princess Elizabeth, arguably her best of nine races. Nata Trouble was a model of consistency last year at 2, during which she won an auction maiden special before checking in third in the Glorious Song Stakes and second in both the restricted Shady Well Stakes and an allowance. In her April 26 season opener over 5 1/2 furlongs at this level, she was steadied along the inside heading into the turn before finishing a belated fourth over a track that favored speed and inside runners. Trainer Willy Armata is taking the blinkers off. Periwinkle rallied for third while still a maiden in the Aug. 25 Muskoka Stakes for graduates of Canadian yearling sales. She eventually won an open maiden special before posting back-to-back fourth-place finishes in the fall, in the Shady Well Stakes and an allowance. Following a sale, Shade of Pale is making her first start for trainer Steven Chircop off a neck loss in an allowance on the Tampa turf. She was previously second in a nine-furlong allowance over Gulfstream’s Tapeta for trainer Chad Brown.