{{Infobox racehorse , horsename = Mane Minister , image = , caption = , sire =

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, grandsire =

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, dam = Lacework , damsire =

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Stallion A stallion is an adult male horse that has not been gelded ( castrated). Stallions follow the conformation and phenotype of their breed, but within that standard, the presence of hormones such as testosterone may give stallions a thicker, "cre ...

, foaled = 1988 , country = United States , colour = Dark Bay/Brown , breeder = Normandy Farm , owner =

Trudy McCaffery Trudy V. McCaffery (April 10, 1944 – February 12, 2007) was a Thoroughbred racehorse owner-breeder in California who served on the board of directors of the Edwin J. Gregson Foundation, the NTRA Charities, the California Thoroughbred Breeders ...

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, trainer = J. Paco Gonzalez , record = 12: 3-0-5 , earnings =

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374,776 , race = Pirate Cove Stakes (1991)

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(1991) , awards = , honours = , updated= January 1, 2010 Mane Minister (foaled 1988 in

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, died in 2010) was an American

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best remembered as the first and, at present, the only, horse to finish third in all three of the U.S. Triple Crown races. Bred by Normandy Farm in

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, he was out of the mare Lacework, whose sire was

, winner of the 1967

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and the leading sire of two-year-olds in 1977. Mane Minister's sire was

, the 1981

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and the

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in 1997 and 1998. Deputy Minister, his sire

, and his grandsire

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are all

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inductees. Purchased and raced by Californian

and Canadian

, Mane Minister scored his most important win in the 1991

. He went that year on to finish third to

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in the

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and third to Hansel in the

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and

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. Retired to

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duty, in the United States Mane Minister notably sired

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, who raced for McCaffery and Toffan and in 2002 won the

San Bernardino Handicap The Tokyo City Cup Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run annually at the beginning of April at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. A Graded stakes race, Grade III event raced on dirt at a distance of miles (12 furlongs), it is ope ...

and

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. Since 1997, Mane Minister has stood at stud in

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References

Mane Minister's pedigree and partial racing stats

Mane Minister's 1991 Kentucky Derby
1988 racehorse births Thoroughbred family 22-d Racehorses bred in Kentucky Racehorses trained in the United States