Diodoro's Dream Lith Comes In Under the Radar for Darley Alcibiades

Last fall at Keeneland, trainer Robertino Diodoro’s Keepmeinmind did not attract a lot of interest at the betting windows for the Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity (G1), being dismissed at 52-1 odds while finishing second and then a month later going off at 30-1 in the TVG Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) Presented by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance in which he finished third.

On Friday, Diodoro will send out Dream Lith for Cypress Creek Equine and Arnold Benewith in the $400,000 Darley Alcibiades (G1) as a 15-1 morning-line proposition in the 1 1/16-mile race for 2-year-old fillies.

Unlike Keepmeinmind, who was a maiden going into the Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity, Dream Lith has a win on her resume followed by a fifth-place finish in the Spinaway (G1). Both races were at Saratoga.

“She had a rough trip in the Spinaway, and she was a little washy in the paddock,” Diodoro said. “And, maybe she came back a little quick. It was just bad luck, and we ran into a monster in Echo Zulu.”

Like many fillies in the race, which will provide the winner with a fees-paid berth into the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) to be run at Del Mar on Nov. 5, Dream Lith will be trying two turns for the first time.

“I think two turns is what she will want,” Diodoro said. “We were surprised the way she won her first start (going 6½ furlongs at 36-1 odds) and I think this is what she wants to do.”

As for the multiple graded stakes-placed Keepmeinmind, he is back at Keeneland.

“We are giving him a break and working on the abscess (in his left front that kept him out of the Pennsylvania Derby-G1),” Diodoro said. “Once that is cleared, he will go to the farm for some 
R & R and get ready for a 4-year-old campaign.”