Manofmanymissions, who trotted the fastest mile in New Jersey Sire Stakes history, has been selected as the overall N. J. Sire Stakes Horse of the Year for 2011
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The award, which is voted annually by the 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 performers.
Manofmanymissions set the Sire Stakes record of 1:52.1 winning the $175,000 NJSS Premier Division Championship Final for three-year-old trotting colts and geldings in August at The Meadowlands. He was undefeated in NJSS competition, also winning a preliminary leg of the NJSS series. Andy Miller drove in both victories.
At the time, his 1:52.1 clocking matched the season’s leader mark he had set in July winning the $166,000 Stanley Dancer Trot at The Meadowlands.
After his NJSS championship victory, Manofmanymissions went on to win the $500,000 Colonial Trot at Chester , a $196,000 heat and $98,000 final of the Kentucky Futurity at Lexington and an elimination of the Breeders Crown at Woodbine. He also had a fourth-place finish in the $1-million Canadian Trotting Classic at Mohawk. David Miller was his driver in those starts.
The son of Yankee Glide, trained by Erv Miller, won nine of 15 starts overall as a three-year-old, earning $1,213,603 in his career for his owners, Manofmanymissions Stable, Mystical Marker Farms and M Biasuzzi Stable. The colt was bred by Kentuckiana Farms.
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