Conquest Stables’ Conquest Harlanate, with Patrick Husbands, needed every foot of the lengthy E.P. Taylor Turf Course stretch before collaring favoured Isabella Sings near the wire to win the co-featured $228,800 Natalma Stakes Saturday at Woodbine.

Named for the dam of Canada’s most famous thoroughbred, Northern Dancer, the Natalma drew a dozen two-year-old fillies in the one mile turf test, with a Breeders’ Cup berth on the line. The winner received an all-expenses paid trip to Santa Anita for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, Friday, October 31.

It was the fifth Natalma win for trainer Mark Casse, who also won with Sprung (2006), Clearly Foxy (2007), Northern Passion (2011) and Spring Venture (2012).
Two longshots, Green Doctor and Appeal to the Win, battled it out early over the ‘good turf’, through fractions of :23.29 and :46.94.

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