Conquest Harlanate on fence for Fury

Trainer Mark Casse has nominated five 3-year-old fillies to next Sunday’s $150,000 Fury Stakes, a key prep for the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks on June 14, including Canada’s champion juvenile filly of 2014, Conquest Harlanate.

Conquest Harlanate has been training in Florida since she was eased in the Grade 2 Santa Ynez Stakes at Santa Anita on Jan. 3, and she had her first published work in two months at Woodbine on Thursday. But Casse said he was undecided on whether to run Conquest Harlanate in the Fury after she worked five furlongs from the gate in 1:02.20.

“I was thinking about [the Fury], but I haven’t decided for sure,” he said. “I’m going to see how she trains and wait for her to tell us when she’s ready to run. Her work [Thursday] was just okay.”

Casse said Shez a Masterpiece, who finished third in the Coronation Futurity against males in November, likely will start in the Fury after also working five furlongs in 1:00.80 at Woodbine on Thursday. Casse also has nominated Dixie Twist, Galina Point, and Conquest So True to the race.