Grade 1 winner Perfect Alibi to face 10 in Keeneland's Alcibiades
Tracy Farmer’s Spinaway (G1) winner Perfect Alibi heads a field of 11 2-year-old fillies entered Tuesday for Friday’s 68th running of the Grade 1, $400,000 Darley Alcibiades on the opening card of Fall Meet.
Contested at 1 1/16 miles over the main track, the Darley Alcibiades is a Breeders’ Cup Challenge race with the winner earning a fees-paid berth into the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) run Nov. 1 at Santa Anita.
The centerpiece of the opening program of the 17-day Fall Meet that runs through Oct. 26, the Darley Alcibiades will go as the ninth race on Friday’s 10-race card with a 5:30 p.m. ET post time. First post time is 1:05 p.m.
Trained by three-time race winner Mark Casse, Perfect Alibi debuted May 16 at Churchill Downs, where she romped to a 9½-length victory going 5 furlongs. Following a runner-up effort in the Astoria at Belmont Park, Perfect Alibi swept the Adirondack (G2) and Spinaway at Saratoga.
Jose Ortiz has the call Friday and will break from post position seven.
The field for the Darley Alcibiades, from the rail out with riders, is
1. Gone Glimmering (James Graham)
2. Three D Flag (Ricardo Santana Jr.)
3. Spitefulness (Tyler Baze)
4. Alandra (Joel Rosario)
5. Micheline (Brian Hernandez Jr.)
6. British Idiom (Javier Castellano)
7. Perfect Alibi (Jose Ortiz)
8. Heir of Light (Julien Leparoux)
9. Sequin (Tyler Gaffalione)
10. Western Taffy (Florent Geroux)
11. How Ironic (Corey Lanerie).
All starters will carry 118 pounds.