Afternoon Deelites
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| Afternoon Deelites | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Private Terms |
| Grandsire | Private Account |
| Dam | Intimate Girl |
| Damsire | Medaille d'Or |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | February 28, 1992 |
| Died | February 14, 2023 (aged 30) |
| 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 | |
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Afternoon Deelites (February 28, 1992 – February 14, 2023) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.
Afternoon Deelites was bred and raced by pianist, composer and music producer, Burt Bacharach (1928–2023) and trained by Hall of Fame inductee Richard Mandella.
The horse was born in West Virginia, sired by Wood Memorial Stakes winner Private Terms, 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]
Racing career
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 2022.[2] In 1995, three-year-old Afternoon Deelites was narrowly beaten in the Santa Anita Derby and went on to run eighth in that year's Kentucky Derby.[3]