Keeneland announces Fall Meet stakes

The Fall Meet opens with the prestigious Fall Stars Weekend, which presents

nine graded stakes worth $3.35 million over three days. Five of those races are

Grade 1 events: the $400,000 Alcibiades, for two-year-old fillies at 1 1/16

miles on October 3; the $750,000 Shadwell Turf Mile, for three-year-olds and up,

the $500,000 Breeders' Futurity and the $400,000 First Lady, for fillies and

mares at mile on turf, all on October 4; and the $500,000 Spinster, for older

fillies and mares at 1 1/8 miles, on October 5.

Eight Keeneland stakes are part of the Breeders' Cup Challenge series of

automatic qualifying races for the Breeders' Cup World Championships to be held

October 31-November 1 at Santa Anita.

Seven of those Breeders' Cup Challenge stakes highlight Fall Stars Weekend:

Darley Alcibiades (a Challenge race for the Juvenile Fillies) and Phoenix

(Sprint) on October 3; Shadwell Turf Mile (Mile), Breeders' Futurity (Juvenile)

and Thoroughbred Club of America (Filly and Mare Sprint) on October 4; and

Spinster (Distaff) and Bourbon (Juvenile Turf) on October 5.

The eighth Breeders' Cup Challenge race is the Jessamine on October 8. The

race awards the winner a berth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.

The entire Fall Meet stakes schedule can be viewed

here.

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