A glance at the toteboard suggested she didn’t have much of a chance. But, at the end of the 1 1/8-miles, Neshama managed to be mightiest of all in the Woodbine Oaks.
As the field departed the gates in the 61st running of Canada’s premier race for three-year-old fillies, the No. 7 horse, trained by Catherine Day Phillips, with Eurico Rosa da Silva, Woodbine’s leading rider aboard, was sent off as a 15-1 outsider.
Certainly, the bay daughter of Sligo Bay had legitimate talent as her two wins and one second (a nose loss in the South Ocean Stakes last November) in five starts prior to the Oaks suggested.