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Keeneland Adds Juvenile Filly Stake to Fall Card 5,000 Alcibiades Is Companion Feature to Breeders Futurity LEXINGTON, Ky., May 29. A new feature, the 5,000 added Alcibiades Stakes, for two-year-old fillies, will be added to Keenelands stakes roster at the fall meeting this year, it was announced today by track manager W. T. Bishop. "We have long felt the need of a two-year-old filly stakes," Bishop stated, "but because we have increased the value of our other stakes, we were not able until the present to inaugurate one." The Alcibiades will become a companion race of the Breeders Futurity, according to present plans, and the management hopes that the fillies attracted here by the Alcibiades will also run in the Futurity, which has no sex restrictions. The Futurity has been grossing more than 0,000 each fall, and it is believed that in future years the Alcibiades will approach it in value. Keenelands 10-day meet each October features two-year-old racing. The new fixture is named in honor of the best mare ever owned by Hal Price Headley, one of the founders of Keeneland. Now a pensioner at the Headley farm near here, Alcibiades won top stakes for her owner-breeder before going to stud and producing for him the stakes winners Menow, Lithe, Salaminia and Sparta, all of whom raced at Keeneland. "We thought we selected not only a famous name in thoroughbred history, but also a fitting one," Bishop remarked. With the Alcibiades, Keeneland will have a program of seven stakes each year in its 21 days of racing. Five are run during the 11-day spring meet, the other two at the 10-day fall session. Nominations for the Alcibiades this year close on June 16. The race is slated to be run October 18.
