Frankie Dettori to ride top US two-year-old filly on first visit to Japan for five years

The Italian superstar jockey has accepted the equine connected the US-trained Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf runner-up May Day Ready successful December

Frankie Dettori is heading to Japan for the archetypal clip successful 5 years.

The superstar rider who is present based successful the US has agreed to thrust North America's champion two-year-old filly connected turf successful the £330,000 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies connected December 8.

The filly May Day Ready is 1 of lone 5 horses trained successful New York by Joseph Lee who is enjoying his champion play since reestablishing a unchangeable 4 years ago.

She has won 3 retired of 4 to date, ridden each clip by Dettori who has known Lee from his days arsenic a Godolphin assistant.

May Day Ready completed a hat-trick of wins erstwhile she landed a invaluable Grade 2 contention astatine Kentucky Downs successful October.

Then she recovered lone Aidan’s O’Brien’s prima filly Lake Victoria excessively bully for her erstwhile finishing a magnitude and a fractional down the European champion successful the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ Turf astatine Del Mar this month.

The show convinced Lee to enactment her guardant for a travel to Japan wherever the trainer spent 10 years moving for his father-in-law, retired trainer Takemi Kaga.

Announcing his program connected X, Lee wrote: “After discussing May Day Ready’s aboriginal with Mr and Mrs Doyle and George Barnes, the determination has officially been made to vessel her to Japan to tally her successful the G1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies connected December 8.

“Having been fortunate to person travelled to Japan galore times implicit the years with Godolphin, this clip volition beryllium different, arsenic I instrumentality arsenic a trainer.

“We are thrilled and fortunate to person the accidental to instrumentality specified a talented filly to Japan.”

On Monday, Lee declared: “It’s official, Frankie Dettori volition question to Japan to thrust May Day Ready for the G1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies connected December 8.”

Dettori visited Japan galore times successful the past wherever his 16 winners see 3 successful the Japan Cup connected Singspiel successful 1996, Falbrav (2002) and Alkaased (2005).

His adjacent quality volition beryllium his archetypal since 2019 erstwhile helium rode six winners during a abbreviated stay, aft an 8 twelvemonth absence.