I HAVE NEVER really understood the extraordinary magnetic charisma generated by Alcibiades, both throughout his lifetime (c. 450-404 BCE) and among the many modern scholars who have continued to be ...

Alcibiades was bred and raced by Hal Price Headley, master of Beaumont Farm south of Lexington, Ky. Headley was a third-generation horseman. His grandfather, George Washington Headley, purchased land ...

Spendthrift Farm's Tommy Jo improved to 3-for-3 in capturing the $650,000 Alcibiades Stakes (G1) on opening day of the fall meet Oct. 3 at Keeneland, though only after a five-minute stewards' inquiry ...

Conquest Stables' My Conquestadory , an impressive winner of Woodbine's TVG Summer Stakes (Can-IIT) in her career debut, heads a full flight of 2-year-old fillies for the $400,000 Darley Alcibiades ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Born around 450 B.C., Alcibiades had the mixed fortune of losing his father Cleinias as a boy and becoming the ...

LEXINGTON, KY -- Friday's Grade 1, $400,000 Alcibiades at Keeneland on opening day went to an inexperienced filly when maiden winner Dancing Rags pulled off a 12-1 upset under Maryland-based jockey ...

Qatar Racing's Peace and War notched her United States debut at Keeneland in impressive fashion Oct. 3, taking the $400,000 Darley Alcibiades with a determined closing run to punch her ticket to the ...