Manchego marched through her freshman campaign without a blemish on her record. She won all 12 of her starts—and every major stakes race offered to 2-year-old trotting fillies. She became the first undefeated 2-year-old filly to win the Breeders Crown, and ended the season as the sport’s richest and co-fastest freshman trotter of 2017.

That tour de force resulted in panelists at Hoof Beats Magazine voting her #1 in the pre-season rankings as she headed into her 3-year-old campaign. And although the “win-a-week” she experienced as a 2-year-old didn’t materialize at 3, she nonetheless finished first, second or third in 12 of 14 starts that year and took home her gender’s most coveted prize: the $500,000 Hambletonian Oaks—in track and stakes record time of 1:50 flat!

Her Oaks victory made her the remarkable fifth Hambletonian Oaks winner that was bred by Brittany Farms.

She carried on her tremendous form as an older trotting mare. Under the care of Nancy Takter (the daughter of Manchego’s retired Hall of Fame trainer, Jimmy Takter), the brilliant mare went on a six race winning streak in 2019 that saw her become the fastest filly or mare trotter of all time on both 5/8-mile and mile tracks. As a 5-year-old in 2020 she set her third World Record; notched her third Breeders Crown Championship; won her second Dan Patch Award; and defeated male rivals in the TVG Open Trot at the Meadowlands.

In 2021, before her retirement in the fall, she increased her career earnings to $3,144,777, making her the fourth-richest trotting mare in history. She became the first trotter in history to win with sub-1:50 miles in three different years and took her second career victories in the John Cashman Memorial and Spirit Of Massachusetts Trot. She was voted the Dan Patch Award for the third time.