LEXINGTON, Ky. – Mark Casse said My Conquestadory, the flashy winner of the Darley Alcibiades Stakes on the opening-day program Friday at Keeneland, will train on dirt for the first time this week as he considers the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies for the unbeaten filly.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Two career starts. One Grade 2 win. And now a Grade 1 win on top of that.

That’s quite a remarkable start to the racing career of My Conquestadory, who became a major contender for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf on Friday when overcoming trouble to post a 1 3/4-length victory in the Grade 1, $400,000 Alcibiades Stakes, the feature race on opening day of the 17-day Keeneland fall meet.

Breeders’ Cup has entered into an agreement with a website specializing in predicting the winners of awards ceremonies such as the Emmys and Oscars to promote its 2013 event, scheduled for Nov. 1-2 at Santa Anita Park in Southern California.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Tom Amoss has often called Sum of the Parts “the fastest horse from the gate” that he’s ever trained in his 26-year career. But that only means something when Sum of the Parts carries that speed to the wire, which is exactly what the Speightstown colt did Friday in repeating as champion in the 161st running of the Grade 3, $200,000 Phoenix Stakes on opening day of the 17-day Keeneland fall meet.

If Orfevre were a professional athlete of the human rather than equine variety, a full year of dark brooding would be ending Sunday. It was one year ago that Orfevre reached out and took firm hold of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, one of the world’s great races, only to let the Arc slip away for no good reason with yards to go.

There are any number of ways to irritate a Parisian you might encounter sipping an espresso and smoking a Gauloise in a boulevard café. Use the wrong fork. Order in English. Say anything in English. Misquote Sartre. Mock Jerry Lewis.

But if you really want to watch their Gallic blood boil (in Celsius, no less), try suggesting that the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, first run in 1920, is just another prep race for the Breeders’ Cup Turf.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The stakes debut of the unbeaten 3-year-old Declassify will have to wait for another weekend.

On Friday, trainer Bob Baffert scratched Declassify from Saturday’s $250,000 Santa Anita Sprint Championship in favor of a start in a $54,000 allowance race Sunday over six furlongs. Baffert said the easier allowance race had greater appeal than the Grade 1 Santa Anita Sprint Championship.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Diamond Bachelor was never a secret – not in either of his two starts, nor when he was an expensive purchase at a 2-year-olds in training sale.

“Everybody knew he was one of three best horses at the sale, and the price reflected what people were thinking,” trainer Patrick Biancone said.

Fortunately, Diamond Bachelor delivered on the hype.

The Breeders’ Cup Sprint is one of a handful of options the connections of Wine Police are mulling over following his win in last weekend’s $150,000 Remington Park Sprint Cup. Wine Police is back at his Zia Park base in Hobbs, N.M., with races in Louisiana, New York, and Pennsylvania also on his radar, trainer Henry Dominguez said Friday.

“The Breeders’ Cup is a consideration,” he said. “We have a lot of spots we can go to and haven’t made a definite decision. We’ll come up with a plan in the next week or so.”

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The day Emollient freaked in the Ashland Stakes, she did it from the far outside. Mike Smith sent her to the lead from post 13 and that was it. A nine-length victory in a Grade 1 rarely has been done so easily.