Ready for Romance, expertly ridden by Eurico Rosa da Silva, remained undefeated through three starts while making her stakes debut in Saturday’s $125,000 Ontario Damsel Stakes, at Woodbine.

Trained by Malcolm Pierce, the Sam-Son Farms homebred daughter of More Than Ready-Strange Romance arrived at the one-turn mile over the E.P. Taylor Turf Course from a pair of sprint scores on the Woodbine main.

Ready for Romance, leaving from the inside post in a field reduced to six horses following the scratch of Internal Bourbon, set splits of :23.60 and :47.05 with Dixie Twist stalking her early foot. Season Ticket, the 4-5 mutuel favourite, raced along the rail from the back of the pack under Patrick Husbands and advanced through the turn as the pack swarmed the rail-skimming pacesetter.

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