“How much time do you have?” trainer Ferris Allen asked when a reporter wondered if Navani, Allen’s entrant in Sunday’s $100,000 Thirty Eight Go Go Stakes at Laurel Park, had any behavioral quirks.

“She’s an extremely persnickety filly,” said Allen, a Maryland mainstay who began his career in 1976, and now boasts 2,332 lifetime victories. “She’s very standoffish and a very tedious filly to train. She has a lot of little idiosyncrasies that come and go. You think you’ve got her figured out, and they show up again. She’s not going to let you take her for granted on any day.”

Navani is one of seven fillies and mares slated to race 1 1/16 miles in the Thirty Eight Go Go Stakes. Allen claimed the Hoppertunity filly for $30,000 at Colonial Downs last year on behalf of Virginia Breeze Racing.

“She’s an over-attractive filly for what you would expect with her pedigree,” Allen said. “When I looked at her on her way to the paddock, she made me double down on my thought of wanting her. She’s a pretty special-looking filly. She had already shown some versatility. At the time, she was about equal on grass and dirt. She really fit the Virginia-certified program and the Maryland-bred program very well.”

Navani has won three races for Allen and finished a good second in her most recent appearance, a second-level allowance at 1 1/16 miles on Sept. 26.

“She ran probably her best number in that race,” Allen noted. “She had run about that same race one other time if you go back on her form, so she’s coming off a lifetime best, but she’s had ample time between races. We’re very happy with how she’s been training.”

Horacio Karamanos pilots Navani from post four.

Sheilahs Warcloud was installed as the 3-1 morning line favorite by Horse Racing Nation’s Ed DeRosa. The Madefromlucky filly seeks her first stakes victory after placing in four stakes events. She returned from an April layoff to finish fourth in last month’s Maryland Million Distaff at seven furlongs.

“I thought it was a pretty tall ask for her to come off a layoff and face that group,” said Nixon. “I was pretty pleased with it.”

This will be Sheilahs Warcloud’s debut race around two turns, but Nixon noted that the 4-year-old filly won her only prior route attempt, a one-turn mile at Laurel early last year, and isn’t too concerned about the additional yardage.

Mychel Sanchez rides Sheilahs Warcloud from post three.

Others in the field include Weber City Miss winner Complexity Jane, the multiple stakes-placed Doctor Abbie, comebacking Di’s Surprise, 2024 White Clay Creek winner Beautiful Blome, and recent allowance winner Backstretch Rose.