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{{Short description|American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse}}
{{other uses|Affection (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox racehorse
| horsename = Affectionately
| image =
| caption =
| sire = [[Swaps (horse)|Swaps]]
| grandsire = [[Khaled (horse)|Khaled]]
| dam = [[Searching (horse)|Searching]]
| damsire = [[War Admiral]]
| sex = [[Filly]]
| foaled = 1960
| country = United States
| colour = [[Bay (horse)|Dark Bay]]
| breeder = Bieber-Jacobs Stables
| owner = [[Ethel D. Jacobs]]
| trainer = [[Hirsch Jacobs]]
| record = 52 : 28-8-6
| earnings= $546,659
| race = [[Fashion Stakes]] (1962) [[National Stallion Stakes (filly division)]] (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 Breeders' Cup Handicap|Distaff Handicap]] (1965) [[Vagrancy Handicap]] (1965) Liberty Bell Handicap (1965) [[Toboggan Handicap]] (1965)
| awards= [[American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly|TSD American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly]] (1962) [[American Champion Sprint Horse]] (1965)
| honours = [[National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame|U.S. Racing Hall of Fame]] (1989) [[Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century|#81 – Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century]] [[Affectionately Handicap]] at [[Aqueduct Racetrack]]
| updated= November 25, 2007
}}
'''Affectionately''' (April 26, 1960 – 1979) was an American [[Thoroughbred]] racehorse.

==Background==
She was sired by 1956 [[American Horse of the Year]] [[Swaps (horse)|Swaps]], out of the racing mare [[Searching (horse)|Searching]]. Searching's dam was Big Hurry, by [[Black Toney]] out of [[La Troienne]].<ref name=tbheritage>[http://www.tbheritage.com/Portraits/LaTroienne.html La Troienne] Retrieved 2011-06-25.</ref> Searching's sire was [[War Admiral]], winner of the [[United States|American]] [[Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing]], whose own sire was [[Man o' War]] .<ref>[http://www.pedigreequery.com/affectionately Affectionately's five-generation pedigree and race record] Retrieved 2011-06-25.</ref>

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]].

==Racing career==
Campaigned under the name of Jacobs' wife Ethel, Affectionately won nine of her first ten starts as a two-year-old. In the [[Matron Stakes (United States)|Matron Stakes]] she was finally beaten by [[Smart Deb]].<ref>[http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall-of-fame/horses-view.asp?varID=2 Racing Hall of Fame] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629034443/http://www.racingmuseum.org/hall-of-fame/horses-view.asp?varID=2 |date=June 29, 2011 }} Retrieved 2011-06-25.</ref>

At ages three and four Affectionately was very good, winning two Interborough Handicaps, the Vosburgh, and the [[Correction Stakes|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 [[Graded stakes race|stakes races]]. She retired sound with eighteen stakes wins, one of only two females to break the half-million-dollar earnings mark.

==Retirement==
Her first foal was 1970 co-[[American Horse of the Year]] [[Personality (horse)|Personality]], who shared the honor with [[Fort Marcy (horse)|Fort Marcy]]. Affectionately produced three other foals, of which one started and won.

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

==Assessment and honors==
At the end of 1962, Affectionately was voted [[American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly]] by ''Turf & Sport Digest''. The rival Thoroughbred Racing Association and ''[[Daily Racing Form]]'' awards were won by Smart Deb.

Jacobs, who was a [[National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame|Hall of Fame]] conditioner, called her "the best horse I've ever trained". He had trained [[Stymie (horse)|Stymie]] and [[Hail To Reason]], the sire of Personality.

In the [[Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century]], Affectionately's granddamsire Man o' War was at #1, her damsire War Admiral at #13, her sire Swaps at #20 and Affectionately herself at #81.

==Pedigree==
{{Pedigree
|name = Affectionately
|f = [[Swaps (horse)|Swaps]]
|m = [[Searching (horse)|Searching]]
|ff = [[Khaled (horse)|Khaled]]
|fm = Iron Reward
|mf = [[War Admiral]]
|mm = Big Hurry
|fff = [[Hyperion (horse)|Hyperion]]
|ffm = Eclair
|fmf = Beau Pere
|fmm = Iron Maiden
|mff = [[Man o' War (horse)|Man o' War]]
|mfm = Brushup
|mmf = [[Black Toney]]
|mmm = [[La Troienne]]
|ffff = [[Gainsborough (horse)|Gainsborough]]
|fffm = Selene
|ffmf = Ethnarch
|ffmm = Black Ray
|fmff = [[Son-in-Law]]
|fmfm = Cinna
|fmmf = [[War Admiral]]
|fmmm = Betty Derr
|mfff = [[Fair Play (horse)|Fair Play]]
|mffm = [[Mahubah]]
|mfmf = [[Sweep (horse)|Sweep]]
|mfmm = Annette K.
|mmff = [[Peter Pan I|Peter Pan]]
|mmfm = Belgravia
|mmmf = [[Teddy (horse)|Teddy]]
|mmmm = Helene de Troie
|}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:1960 racehorse births]]
[[Category:1979 racehorse deaths]]
[[Category:American Champion racehorses]]
[[Category:Racehorses bred in Kentucky]]
[[Category:Racehorses trained in the United States]]
[[Category:United States Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame inductees]]
[[Category:Thoroughbred family 1-x]]

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