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MANUEL FRANCO

MANUEL FRANCO
Birthdate - Dec. 19, 1994
Birthplace - Carolina, Puerto Rico
Height - 5 feet, 1 inch
Weight - 112 pounds
Family - Single

2017 RECORD

1,327 - 187, 175, 188

$12,681,817

2017 NYRA RECORD

1290 - 184, 172, 184

$12,158,530

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

*Won his first Grade 1 on October 1, 2016 with Joking in the Vosburgh, and followed with his second a week later with Yellow Agate in the Frizette.

INTRODUCTION TO RACING

* Went to the track with his father in Puerto Rico; attended jockey school there in 2012

FIRST WINNER

* Skylight Citizen, Jan. 2, 2013, Camarero, PR

NEW YORK STAKES WINS

Alex M. Robb: Sent It In (2016)

Awad: Mountain Music Man (2015)

Bay Shore: Long Haul Bay (2017)


Bouwerie: Quezon (2015)


Broadway: Hot City Girl (2017)

Cicada: Lost Raven (2016)

Correction: Clothes Fall Off (2016)

Danger’s Hour: Aztec Brave (2015)

Diablo: Joking (2016)

Empire Classic: Empire Dreams (2015)

Empire Distaff Handicap: Verdant Pastures (2017)

Fleet Indian: Jc’s Shooting Star (2015)

Fourstardave: World Approval (2017)

Frizette: Yellow Agate (2016)

Gander: Governor Malibu (2016)

Garland of Roses: Expression (2014)

Intercontinental: Zindaya (2015)

Jazil: Sunny Ridge (2017), Micromanage (2015)

Jimmy Winkfield: Awesome Gent (2016)

Key Cents: The Lewis Dinner (2014)

Ladies: Saythreehailmary’s (2016)

License Fee: Zindaya (2015)

Notebook: Regal Minister (2014)

NYSS: Toni Tools (Fifth Ave., 2016) The Lewis Dinner, (Fifth Ave., 2014)

Perfect Sting: My Sweet Girl (2016)

Plenty of Grace: Light In Paris (2017)

Prince Hill: Yoshida (2017)

Remsen: Catholic Boy (2017)

Saginaw: Wake Up in Malibu (2016)

Seattle Slew: Securitz (2017)

Sleepy Hollow: Evaluator (2017)

Stymie: Sunny Ridge (2017), Turco Bravo (2016)

Ticonderoga: Old Harbor (2016)

True North: Joking (2016)

Vosburgh: Joking (2016)

Queens County: Micromanage (2014)

Wild Applause: Super Marina (2017)


With Anticipation: Catholic Boy (2017)


Withers: Sunny Ridge (2016)

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