May Day Ready moved to Mandella barn, resumes training

May Day Ready, a three-time stakes winner and millionaire, is in training with Richard Mandella at Santa Anita with the goal of resuming her career later this spring.

On Friday at Santa Anita, May Day Ready worked a half-mile on the infield training track in 47.60 seconds, her fourth workout since late February.

“She’s five or six weeks from a race,” Mandella said.

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May Day Ready, a 4-year-old filly by Tapit, races for KatieRich Stables. Mandella said he was approached at Del Mar last year about adding May Day Ready to his stable.

Previously trained by Joseph Lee, May Day Ready had a brilliant season as a 2-year-old in 2024, winning the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Fillies and the Grade 2 Jessamine Stakes at Keeneland. She was later second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Del Mar and 13th of 18 in the Grade 1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies in Japan.

Last year, May Day Ready won once in five starts, the Grade 2 Lake Placid Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Saratoga in August. She has not raced since she finished seventh of 12 in the Grade 2 Valley View Stakes at Keeneland in October.

May Day Ready has won 4 of 10 starts and earned $1,306,775.

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