[2] 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.
Campaigned under the name of Jacobs' wife Ethel, Affectionately won nine of her first ten starts as a two-year-old.
She retired sound with eighteen stakes wins, one of only two females to break the half-million-dollar earnings mark.
Her first foal was 1970 co-American Horse of the Year Personality, who shared the honor with Fort Marcy.
At the end of 1962, Affectionately was voted American Champion Two-Year-Old Filly by Turf & Sport Digest.