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My Conquestadory doing well following adventurous Alcibiades win

Last updated: 10/5/13 2:27 PM

My Conquestadory doing well following adventurous

Alcibiades win

My Conquestadory will train up to the Breeders' Cup at Churchill Downs

(Keeneland/Coady Photography)

Trainer Mark Casse said Conquest Stables' My Conquestadory

came out of her adventurous victory in Friday's Grade 1 Alcibiades on

Keeneland's opening day in good

order and was headed to Churchill Downs, where she will continue her training

for a start in the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita early next

month.

Ridden by Eurico Da Silva, My Conquestadory was trapped on

the inside behind a wall of horses on the backstretch before finally working out

a trip to get clear sailing for a 1 3/4-length victory over Rosalind.

"I did not have any nightmares about the race, because you

have to go to sleep before you can have a nightmare," Casse said with a laugh.

"Over the weekend, we have nine horses running in graded stakes, so come

Tuesday, I might sleep for a couple of days."

Casse has Conquest Titan tabbed for the Breeders' Futurity and Sisterly Love

in the

Spinster; both races are "Win and You're In" contests for the Breeders'

Cup. A victory by Conquest Titan would make Casse the first trainer to sweep the

Alcibiades and Breeders' Futurity the same year since Pat Byrne did in 1997

with Countess Diana and Favorite Trick.

Friday's victory earned My Conquestadory a spot in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, but Casse said the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf might be the

target.

"This is a filly that never has set foot on a dirt track,"

he explained. "We are going to Churchill Downs this morning and we have a month.

It is still to be determined and if I had to decide today it would be 100

percent turf. But if it is dirt, it would not be for the money, it would be for

the (two-year-old filly) championship."

Now unbeaten in two starts, My Conquestadory has a grass

win over males on her resume as well as Friday's Polytrack victory.

In other Alcibiades news, runner-up Rosalind was back at Churchill Downs and doing well

after chasing My Conquestadory.

"She has been training there," trainer Ken McPeek said.

"She is a pretty special filly and we are looking at the Breeders' Cup Juvenile

Fillies on dirt. There are two reasons: I don't want to go a mile (in the

Juvenile Fillies Turf) and I don't want to face the winner from yesterday

again."

Sum of the Parts could try the Breeders' Cup Sprint again off his Phoenix victory

(Keeneland/Coady Photography)

Also on Friday at Keeneland, Sum of the Parts successfully defended his title

in the Grade 3 Phoenix by 1 1/4 lengths for trainer Tom Amoss. Last year, the

Speightstown colt used the Phoenix as a

springboard to the Breeders' Cup Sprint, where he finished fourth, beaten

only three lengths by Trinniberg.

"He is tired this morning but in good shape," Amoss said.

"We have a full month (to the Breeders' Cup) if we decide to go. It will be the

owners' (Seth Klarman and William Lawrence's Klaravich Stables) decision and

they will probably make it early next week. My vote right now would be to go."

For the time being, Sum of the Parts will remain at

Keeneland where he has won all three of his starts.

Casse's entrant in the Phoenix, Laugh Track, took the trip with My

Conquestadory to Churchill Downs Saturday morning. The Canadian Grade 3 winner

was second in Friday's six-furlong contest.

"He is doing great this morning," Casse said. "We will aim

for the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile with him."

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