SAHLABIYA, owned by Shadwell Stable and trained by Chad Brown, is expected at Woodbine for this Sunday’s $500,000 Woodbine Oaks, the premier race for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies.

Sold by David Anderson’s Anderson Farms as a yearling for $1.6 million, the filly has been second and third in two career races on the turf at Belmont Park.

“Chad’s guiding us on this,” said Jonny Smyth, a farm manager at Shadwell, Kentucky. “We’re excited. We think very highly of her and for her to have a chance to come back to Canada where she was foaled and run the Oaks is phenomenal.”

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