The Alcibiades Stakes is an American

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run annually in early October at Keeneland Race Course in

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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 Darley Racing since 2003, the Alcibiades Stakes was named for

Hal Price Headley Hal Price Headley (December 19, 1888 – March 22, 1962) was an American owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses and a founder of Keeneland who served as the race track's president from 1935 to 1951. He owned the 4,000 acre Beaumont Far ...

's great foundation mare

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. The race is currently part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge series. The winner will automatically qualify for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. 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 Polytrack surface. In 2014, the Polytrack was replaced by a new dirt surface.

Records

Time record: (at present distance of miles) * 1:42.80 – Silverbulletday (1998) ;Most wins by an owner * 4 – Leslie Combs II (1957, 1967, 1978. 1983) ;Most wins by a jockey * 3 – Don Brumfield (1968, 1972, 1982) * 3 – Rafael Bejarano (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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