Every Way Out has been selected as the New Jersey Sire Stakes’ Horse of the Year for 2016.

The award, which is voted annually by the New Jersey Sire Stakes Board of Trustees, is based solely on performances in races for New Jersey-sired horses, including NJSS races and other major stakes for NJ-sired horses.

Every Way Out won six of the seven New Jersey-restricted races that he entered, including the finals of the NJSS’s Premier Division at the Meadowlands Racetrack and the Standardbred Development Fund at Freehold Raceway.

Along the way, the colt by If I Can Dream out of Every Play was also victorious in the Lou Babic Memorial Pace and the New Jersey Futurity. Regular driver Tim Tetrick handled Every Way Out in all of his victories, with the exception of the Standardbred Development Fund final, where he was steered by Joe Bongiorno.

Among his other wins on the season were the Arden Stakes at The Meadows and the Geers Stake – where he took his seasonal mark of 1:51.2f – and Reynolds Stakes, both at Tioga Down. A winner of $181,805 on the year, Every Way Out was purchased just prior to his win in the Premier Division Final by Howard Taylor, Abraham Basen, Edwin Gold and Thomas Lazzaro. After the purchase, Dylan Davis assumed the training duties from Aaron Lambert. The colt was bred by Bulletproof Enterprises of Oley, Pennsylvania.

Every Way Out’s connections will be honoured at the 60th annual Breeder Awards Luncheon on January 29, 2017 at O’Connor’s Restaurant in Eastampton, New Jersey.

(NJSS)