After the first of those stakes wins, beaten jockey Chris McCarron cracked of Afternoon Deelites, “They better check that horse’s lip tattoo. Afternoon Deelites with Kent Desormeaux up. But Afternoon Deelites, the second West Virginia bred to compete in the Run for the Roses, finished eighth, unable to factor in the running of America’s most famous race. At four, Afternoon Deelites could not quite find the form that had defined his two-year-old season and the early months of his three-year-old season. Both Afternoon Deelites, who was pensioned from stud duty in 2011, and Popcorn Deelites currently reside at Old Friends in Georgetown, Kentucky.

Source: Washington Post January 19, 2022 22:16 UTC