Popcorn Deelites

Popcorn Deelites
Sire	Afternoon Deelites
Grandsire	Private Terms
Dam	Turquoise Gal
Damsire	Navajo
Sex	Gelding
Foaled	1998
Country	United States
Color	Bay
Breeder	Dennis B. Swartz
Owner	David Hoffman
Trainer	Priscilla Leon Jimmie D. Claridge
Record	58: 11-5-7
Earnings	$56,880

Popcorn Deelites (foaled April 19, 1998) is a thoroughbred race horse who is best known for his movie career.

Foaled in 1998 by Afternoon Deelites out of Turquoise Gal (by Navajo), the gelding ran for six years as a low-level claimer, yet he did win 11 of his 58 starts and accumulated $56,880 in earnings.

Popcorn Deelites' bloodline contains some great names: Damascus, Bold Ruler, Secretariat, Ack Ack, Sword Dancer, Buckpasser, Northern Dancer, and Gallant Man, all on his top line. From his dam he goes back to Bimelech, Black Toney, Johnstown, Count Fleet, and the "blue hen" mare La Troienne.

Popcorn Deelites also starred in the title role of the 2003 Oscar-nominated Seabiscuit. As Seabiscuit, he played alongside Jeff Bridges as Seabiscuit's owner Charles S. Howard, Tobey Maguire as jockey Red Pollard, Chris Cooper as trainer Tom Smith, Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens as the "Ice Man" George Woolf, and Hall of Famer Chris McCarron as Charles Kurtsinger, another Hall of Fame jockey.

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