LEXINGTON, Ky. - With the 22nd Breeders' Cup set for Oct. 29 in New York, the prep races with the highest quality are being run at Belmont Park. Trainers want their horses to get a race over the track, a swing variable that has bolstered the fields at Belmont while simultaneously depleting the available pool of talent elsewhere.

A field of 11 juvenile fillies with no heavy favorite should make for a competitive renewal of the Darley Alcibiades Stakes (gr. II) Friday, Keeneland opening day of the fall meeting.

More Than Pretty, from the barn of Keeneland regular Bernie Flint, will be on the lead and one of those who may prove tough to handle in the $400,000 1 1/16-mile race.

Tim Ritchey still has designs on making a run at the Breeders' Cup Classic - Powered by Dodge (gr. I) with his dual classic winner Afleet Alex, and he plans on working the 3-year-old colt after the break Friday morning at Belmont Park.

The New York Racing Association could be insolvent by the third week of November unless several plans to raise money and cut expenses occur, NYRA President Charles Hayward told a state oversight panel today.