On Friday, the place known as Percy’s Bar on Keeneland’s second floor mezzanine could be the happening place around 5:30 p.m. depending on the outcome of the $650,000 Darley Alcibiades (G1).
Should Hat Creek Racing’s Percy’s Bar win the Darley Alcibiades, happy hour might be extended.
“Win, lose or draw, it is a good place to drown your sorrows or celebrate,” said Ben Colebrook, who trains Percy’s Bar. She is one of the leading players coming into the Darley Alcibiades, a “Win and You’re In” race for the NetJets Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) at Del Mar on Oct. 31. “I’ve got one in the last race so ‘Percy’s’ may be shut down for the day.”
So far, Percy’s Bar has given Colebrook plenty to celebrate with daylight victories in her debut here in April and in the Debutante (L) at Churchill Downs in June. She comes into the Darley Alcibiades off a runner-up finish to Friday rival Tommy Jo in the Spinaway (G1) at Saratoga on Aug. 30.
“She didn’t have the best of trips in the Spinaway,” Colebrook said of the 7-furlong test. “She got shuffled back and was boxed in, and her race is better than it looks on paper. She was the second- best filly that day.”
Luan Machado, who has been aboard Percy’s Bar for all her races, has the call Friday and will exit post 1.