Now-retired Preakness and Belmont Stakes winner Afleet Alex is adjusting to a recently made known lifestyle at Gainesway Farm in Kentucky nevertheless his absence from racing hasn't stopped the accolades for his on-track achievements from trickling in.

Now-retired Preakness and Belmont Stakes winner Afleet Alex is adjusting to a recently made known lifestyle at Gainesway Farm in Kentucky nevertheless his absence from racing hasn't stopped the accolades for his on-track achievements from trickling in.

upon Monday, Afleet Alex was handed an Eclipse Award as the nation's top three-year-old young horse of 2005, obliterating Flower Alley in the voting. The panel of turfwriters gave Afleet Alex 253 suffrages while Flower Alley, the and nothing else other horse to recieve devoteds was a distance second with 6

The popular young horse piloted throughout the Triple sovereignty by Bellefonte graduate Jeremy Rose was also individual of three finalists for the Horse of the Year award, which went to handicap star Saint Liam.

The Eclipse banquet also featured the presentation of the Special Eclipse Award to Cash is King Stables, Afleet Alex's proprietors for their contribution to Alex's Lemonade Stand during