Odds On Racing's


Horse of the Month
for April 2009


Miss Easy


p,2,1:51.2; 3,1:51.1 ($1,777,656)
Bay mare
Foaled March 15, 1988 at Paris, Kentucky
By Amity Chef--Pleasure Seeker--Bret Hanover
Owned by Hanover Shoe Farms
Bred by Stoner Creek Stud

Miss Easy

Horse of the Month

After Miss Easy retired from racing, she ranked in the top fifty Leading Moneywinning Pacers for fourteen years. During two racing seasons she amassed an amazing $1.778 million in earnings. The first two-year-old filly to win over a million dollars, she has thirty-two starts, twenty-five wins and only missed hitting the board once. Miss Easy became the first pacing filly to break 1:52 at both two and three years of age.

In 1990, her freshman year, Miss Easy had seventeen starts, with fifteen wins and total earnings of $1,128,956. She tied Central Park West’s 1988 two-year-old filly record for the most 2:00 miles in a season – sixteen. She was named the USTA Horse of the Month in September and was awarded year-end USTA Two-Year-Old Pacing Filly of the Year honors.

She won four New Jersey Sire Stakes, including the final and was the first filly ever to be named New Jersey Sire Stakes Horse of the Year. Other major wins for Miss Easy were The Sweetheart (in a stake record 1:52.3 victory), The Three Diamonds, a division of the Countess Adios (in which she set a new track record), the Lady Baltimore and the Breeders Crown Two-Year-Old Filly Pace, during which she set a season’s record for a five-eighths mile track of 1:54.

In 1991, as a three-year-old, Miss Easy won the Mistletoe Shalee (in a world and race record mark of 1:51.1), the Historic Ladyship, and a division of the Tarport Hap. She also won the Breeders Crown Three-Year-Old Filly Pace in a world record 1:52.2f. She was named the USTA August Horse of the Month and at year-end was named the USTA Three-Year-Old Pacing Filly of the Year.

Miss Easy retired at the end of her 3-year-old season, and is the dam of JFK (by Dragon's Lair)p,3,1:52 ($252,930) and Easycrombie (by Abercrombie) p,5,1:52.3 ($115,972), and is expecting her 15th foal in the Spring of 2009.

Miss Easy's Career Racing Statistics
Year  Starts/Wins/2nds/3rds  Earnings       Record          Venue & Record Date

1991     15      10        2       2      $648,700         3, 1:51.1M      M M 08/16/1991
1990     17      15        1       1      $1,128,956      2, 1:51.2M      LEX M 09/25/1990
Total    32      25        3       3      $1,777,656      3, 1:51.1M