Affectionately

Affectionately
Sire Swaps
Grandsire Khaled
Dam Searching
Damsire War Admiral
Sex Filly
Foaled 1960
Country United States
Colour Dark Bay
Breeder Bieber-Jacobs Stables
Owner Ethel D. Jacobs
Trainer Hirsch Jacobs
Record 52 : 28-8-6
Earnings $546,659
Major wins
Fashion Stakes (1962)
National Stallion Stakes (1962)
Polly Drummand Stakes (1962)
Spinaway Stakes (1962)
Sorority Stakes (1962)
Astoria Stakes (1962)
Interborough Handicap (1963 & 1964)
Vosburgh Stakes (1964)
Correction Handicap (1963, 1964)
Sport Page Handicap (1964)
Top Flight Handicap (1965)
Distaff Handicap (1965)
Vagrancy Handicap (1965)
Liberty Bell Handicap(1965)
Toboggan Handicap (1965)
Awards
American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly (1962)
American Champion Sprint Horse (1965)
Honours
U.S. Racing Hall of Fame (1989)
#81 - Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century
Affectionately Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack
Horse (Equus ferus caballus)
Last updated on November 25, 2007

Affectionately (April 26, 1960 - 1979) was the daughter of 1956 American Horse of the Year Swaps, out of the exceptional racing mare Searching. Searching's dam was Big Hurry, by Black Toney out of the best "Blue Hen" mare of them all, La Troienne.[1] Searching's sire was War Admiral, winner of the American Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, whose own sire was Man o' War (arguably the greatest American race horse of the 20th century).[2]

In the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century, with Affectionately's great-granddamsire at #1, her damsire at #13, her sire at #20 and Affectionately herself at #81, Affectionately's heritage continues a tradition of Thoroughbred breeding and racing at its best.

Career

Foaled on April 26, 1960 at the farm of Dr. Charles Hagyard near Lexington, Kentucky, she was bred by the partnership of owner/trainer Hirsch Jacobs and Isidor Bieber. Jacobs, who was a Hall of Fame conditioner, called her "the best horse I've ever trained". Jacobs had trained Stymie and Hail to Reason. Campaigned under the name of Jacobs' wife Ethel, Affectionately won nine of her first ten starts. In the Matron Stakes she was finally beaten by Smart Deb. When Affectionately was named champion two-year-old filly in 1962, she shared the honor with Smart Deb.[3]

At ages three and four Affectionately was very good, winning two Interborough Handicaps, the Vosburgh, and the Correction Handicap. When she turned five, however, she gained the successes that put her on the list of the 100 best racehorses of the twentieth century. Under high weights, she took the Top Flight Handicap, the Vagrancy Handicap and a number of other important stakes races. She retired sound with eighteen stakes wins, one of only two females to break the half-million-dollar earnings mark. As a broodmare, she was as brilliant as she was a racehorse. Her first foal was 1970 co-American Horse of the Year Personality, who shared the honor with Fort Marcy.

Affectionately died in 1979. Ten years later she was voted into the Hall of Fame, an honor her dam Searching was accorded only the year before.

Pedigree of Affectionately
Sire
Swaps
Khaled Hyperion Gainsborough
Selene
Eclair Ethnarch
Black Ray
Iron Reward Beau Pere Son-in-Law
Cinna
Iron Maiden War Admiral
Betty Derr
Dam
Searching
War Admiral Man o' War Fair Play
Mahubah
Brushup Sweep
Annette K.
Big Hurry Black Toney Peter Pan
Belgravia
La Troienne Teddy
Helene de Troie

References

  1. ^ La Troienne Retrieved 2011-06-25.
  2. ^ Affectionately's five-generation pedigree and race record Retrieved 2011-06-25.
  3. ^ Racing Hall of Fame Retrieved 2011-06-25.