Thought Process, an impressive winner of the Feb. 28 Buena Vista Stakes (G2T), will take on seven fillies and mares May 25 in the $300,000 Gamely Stakes (G1T) at Santa Anita Park. The 1 1/8-mile turf race for 3-year-olds and up is part of Santa Anita's 10-race Memorial Day program.
The 4-year-old daughter of Collected returns from a three-month layoff, dangerous and well rested for trainer Philip D'Amato. After earning a career-best 104 Equibase Speed Figure and 90 Beyer Speed Figure in the Buena Vista, Thought Process looks primed for another peak performance. She turned in a sharp workout May 18, blazing 5 furlongs in :58 4/5, signaling she is cranked and ready for another top effort.
Among her rivals will be Chivalry Thoroughbred Racing and Rancho Temescal Thoroughbred Partners' Take A Breath, who enters the race off back-to-back wins at Santa Anita in the Santa Ana Stakes (G3T) and Royal Heroine Stakes (G3T). The Mark Glatt trainee defeated returning May Day Ready by a half-length in the Royal Heroine.
The KatieRich Stables-owned May Day Ready makes her second start of the year since being transferred to the barn of Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella. The Tapit filly showed a lot of promise as a 2-year-old, winning three races in a row, including the 2024 Jessamine Stakes (G2T) at Keeneland, before running second to Lake Victoria in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) against a strong field that included eventual champion 3-year-old filly Nitrogen, grade 1 winner Kilwin, and Thought Process.
May Day Ready should benefit from the expected speed in the race. Antonio Fresu, who rode the filly in the Royal Heroine, will be in the irons.
Twin Oaks Bloodstock's Hang the Moon ships west for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr., and will look for her first graded stakes win since 2024. She was last seen finishing second, beaten a neck, in the Sand Springs Stakes March 28 at Gulfstream Park. Before selling for $625,000 to Marc Gunderson's MWG at the 2025 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, the 6-year-old daughter of Uncle Mo was based on the West Coast with D'Amato, where she won back-to-back graded stakes races at 4, one of them over the Santa Anita turf course. Flavien Prat will ride the mare for the first time.
Multiple graded stakes winner Rashmi enters off a victory in the March 28 Wilshire Stakes (G3T). That was her first race in more than a year. The Jonathan Thomas-trained mare hit the Santa Anita turf twice in 2025 with a win in the Megahertz Stakes (G3T), followed by a third-place finish in the Buena Vista Stakes (G2T).
Public Assembly, A Thousand Miles, and Vronti round out the field.
Santa Anita Park, Monday, May 25, 2026, Race 6Entries: Gamely S. (G1T)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L 1 1Public Assembly (KY) Joel Rosario 122 Philip D'Amato 10/1 2 2Hang the Moon (KY) Flavien Prat 122 Saffie A. Joseph, Jr. 8/1 3 3A Thousand Miles (KY) Mike E. Smith 122 Vann Belvoir 30/1 4 4Take A Breath (GB) Emisael Jaramillo 122 Mark Glatt 10/1 5 5Thought Process (KY) Hector Isaac Berrios 124 Philip D'Amato 7/5 6 6Vronti (GB) Juan J. Hernandez 122 H. Graham Motion 4/1 7 7Rashmi (KY) Kazushi Kimura 122 Jonathan Thomas 9/2 8 8May Day Ready (KY) Antonio Fresu 124 Richard E. Mandella 6/1
