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Paradise Farms Corp. and David Staudacher's Special Reserve will face seven rivals Friday in his bid to become the seventh back-to-back winner of the $350,000 Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix (G2) going 6 furlongs on the main track.

Scheduled as the seventh race on the Fall Meet's opening-day 10-race card, the Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix is a “Win and You're In” race for the $2 million Qatar Racing Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) to be run here Nov. 5. Post time for the Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix is 4:12 p.m. ET with first post at 1 p.m.

Trained by Mike Maker, Special Reserve won last year's Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix as the 6-5 favorite by a neck over Aloha West, who would come back four weeks later and win the Breeders' Cup Sprint at Del Mar.

Two Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix winners have won the Breeders' Cup Sprint with the most recent being Work All Week in 2014 and Runhappy in 2015.

Fourth in the Breeders' Cup Sprint last year, Special Reserve has run twice this year and enters Friday's race off a 3½-length victory in the Senator Robert Byrd Memorial at Mountaineer on Aug. 6. Tyler Gaffalione has the mount Friday from post position two.

The field for the Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix, with riders and weights from the rail out, is:

1. Sir Alfred James (Rafael Bejarano, 120 pounds)
2. Special Reserve (Gaffalione, 120)
3. Top Gunner (Rey Gutierrez, 120)
4. Baytown Bear (Jack Gilligan, 120)
5. Sibelius (Junior Alvarado, 120)
6. Necker Island (Francisco Arrieta, 120)
7. Manny Wah (Corey Lanerie, 118)
8. Long Range Toddy (Paco Lopez, 120)

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Lucky Seven Stable's Fun and Feisty, winner of the Pocahontas (G3) at Churchill Downs going 1 1/16 miles in her most recent start, and D. J. Stable's Wonder Wheel, runner-up in the Spinaway (G1) at Saratoga, headline a field of 14 2-year-old fillies entered Tuesday for Friday's 71st running of the $500,000 Darley Alcibiades (G1).

The 1 1/16-mile main track test is a Breeders' Cup Challenge race that offers the winner a fees-paid berth to the $2 million NetJets Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) to be run here Nov. 4. Four Darley Alcibiades winners have gone on to win the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies with the most recent being British Idiom in 2019.

The Darley Alcibiades serves as the centerpiece of Friday's 10-race program that begins at 1 p.m. ET and kicks off the 17-day Fall Meet that runs through Saturday, Oct. 29. The Darley Alcibiades will go as the ninth race with a 5:16 p.m. post time.

A winner of two of four starts, Fun and Feisty is trained by five-time Darley Alcibiades winner Kenny McPeek, whose most recent victory in the race came in 2020 with Simply Ravishing. Julien Leparoux, a two-time Darley Alcibiades winner, has the mount Friday and will exit from post position nine.

McPeek also will send out Kentucky Downs maiden winner Stellar Lady. Owned by Tommie Lewis, James Chambers, Craig Benoit and Magdalena Racing, Stellar Lady will break from post three and be ridden by Brian Hernandez Jr.

Wonder Wheel, a winner of two of three starts including the Debutante (L) at Churchill Downs in July, is trained by three-time Darley Alcibiades winner Mark Casse, whose most recent winner in the race was Heavenly Love in 2017. Tyler Gaffalione, who has been aboard for all of Wonder Wheel's starts, has the call Friday from post position one.

Three other fillies that ran in the 7-furlong Spinaway are in the field Friday: third-place finisher Kaling, owned by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and trained by Todd Pletcher; Valene Farms' Sabra Tuff, who finished fifth for trainer Dallas Stewart; and Clarkland Farm's Just Cindy, who finished sixth for trainer Eddie Kenneally.

The field for the Darley Alcibiades, with riders from the rail out, is:

1. Wonder Wheel (Gaffalione)
2. Chop Chop (Joel Rosario)
3. Stellar Lady (Hernandez Jr.)
4. Raging Sea (Jose Ortiz)
5. Xigera (Joe Talamo)
6. Mustang Lady (Rafael Bejarano)
7. Essaouira (Irad Ortiz Jr.)
8. Infinite Diamond (Florent Geroux)
9. Fun and Feisty (Leparoux)
10. Kaling (John Velazquez)
11. Just Cindy (Luis Saez)
12. Take Charge Briana (Flavien Prat)
13. Sabra Tuff (Paco Lopez)
14. Boss Lady Bailey (Rey Gutierrez)

All starters will carry 122 pounds.

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The Platinum Queen became the first 2-year-old since 1978 to win the Prix de l'Abbaye (G1) on Sunday, besting her elder rivals by a short neck in the five-furlong contest at Longchamp in Paris, France. Now, the daughter of Cotai Glory could be headed to the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint.

Trainer Richard Fahey wrote in his column on sportinglife.com: “I've never trained a quicker 2-year-old.

“The Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint over five-and-a-half furlongs would be on my mind. It would be around a bend. We've only got one turn on the gallops at home but it's left-handed and she's been round it plenty of times without a problem. We won't know until the day, but she has an inclination to go left and I don't think the track at Keeneland will be a problem.”

Hollie Doyle was aboard for The Platinum Queen's triumph, marking the first female jockey to win the Group 1 contest.

“The filly always gives her all and it is a huge success for (ownership syndicate) Middleham Park Racing,” Doyle told Longchamp media. “I was gutted to have been beaten on Nashwa (in the day's previous race), but then thirty minutes later I was delighted to have won on this filly.”

The Platinum Queen, bought for £57,000 (about US$64,500) at the Tattersalls breeze-up in April, ran for the first time two months later and won at Ripon. She couldn't keep up at Royal Ascot in the Queen Mary Stakes (G2) but won again three weeks later at York, then at Goodwood before finishing second against her elders in the Nunthorpe Stakes (G1). Beaten by a short head then at Doncaster in the Flying Childer Stakes (G2), she did not miss the mark again at Longchamp.

The Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp Longines was a “Win And You're In” for the US$1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1), which is restricted to runners 3-years-old and older. The Platinum Queen's connections are permitted to transfer the waived entry fees for her to start in another Breeders' Cup Juvenile race based upon the requisite conditions.

Prix de L'Abbaye winner The Platinum Queen (Ire) looks like she could go for another lap! Congrats to the connections! #BC22 #WinAndYoureIn @paris_longchamp @HollieDoyle1 pic.twitter.com/bbjvK2EtLk

— Breeders' Cup (@BreedersCup) October 2, 2022

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