The Alcibiades Stakes is an American

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run annually in early October at

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. A

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race, it is open to two-year-old

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willing to race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt. Sponsored by

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since 2003, the Alcibiades Stakes was named for Hal Price Headley's great foundation mare

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. The race is currently part of the

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series. The winner will automatically qualify for the

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. The race obtained

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status in 1973 and was a Grade III race through 1975, a Grade II from 1976 through 2006 and elevated in 2007 to Grade I status with a current purse of $500,000. Inaugurated in 1952 as a seven furlong race, from 1956 through 1980 it was run at seven furlongs, 184 feet. In 1981 it was changed to its present distances of miles. The Alcibiades Stakes was raced on dirt until 2006 when Keeneland Race Course installed the synthetic

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surface. In 2014, the Polytrack was replaced by a new dirt surface.

Records

Time record: (at present distance of miles) * 1:42.80 –

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(1998) ;Most wins by an owner * 4 –

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(1957, 1967, 1978. 1983) ;Most wins by a

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* 3 –

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(1968, 1972, 1982) * 3 –

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(2004, 2007, 2010) ;Most wins by a trainer * 6 – D. Wayne Lukas (1983, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1995, 2003)

Winners

References

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Records

Winners

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