Afternoon Deelites

Afternoon Deelites
Sire Private Terms
Grandsire Private Account
Dam Intimate Girl
Damsire Medaille d'Or
Sex Stallion
Foaled 1992
Country United States
Colour Dark Bay
Breeder Blue Seas Music Inc.
Owner Burt Bacharach
Trainer Richard Mandella
Record 12:7-3-0
Earnings US$ $1,061,193
Major wins
Hollywood Futurity (1994)
Hollywood Prevue Stakes (1994)
Malibu Stakes (1995)
San Felipe Stakes (1995)
San Vicente Stakes (1995)
Commonwealth Stakes (1996)

Afternoon Deelites (foaled February 28, 1992) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse bred and raced by pianist, composer and music producer, Burt Bacharach.

The horse was born in West Virginia, sired by Wood Memorial Stakes winner Private Terms, and out of the mare Intimate Girl, whose sire was the 1978 Canadian Champion Two-Year-Old Colt Medaille d'Or, a son of the legendary Secretariat.[1] Trained by Hall of Fame inductee Richard Mandella, Afternoon Deelites won several Graded stakes races including two Grade 1 events. In 1994 he won the Hollywood Futurity in stakes record time for a mile and a sixteenth that still stands as at the end of 2012.[2] In 1995, three-year-old Afternoon Deelites was narrowly beaten in the Santa Anita Derby and went on the run eighth in that year's Kentucky Derby.[3]

At stud

Afternoon Deelites did stallion duty at Airdrie Stud in Kentucky before being moved to a Clear Creek Stud breeding farm in Louisiana. He was the sire of 23 graded stakes winners; one of his offspring, Popcorn Deelites, became known for roles in motion pictures, especially as Seabiscuit in the 2003 film of the same name.[4]

Due to age related infertility problems, in May 2011 Afternoon Deelites was sent to the Old Friends,Inc. retirement home for Thoroughbred racehorses in Georgetown, Kentucky.[5]

References

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