When Mia’s Crusade looks to extend one of the more impressive careers by a Jersey-bred mare in Saturday’s Jersey Girl Handicap at Monmouth Park she will also be chasing some history.

The 6-year-old daughter of Greenpointcrusader, who won the Jersey Girl a year ago, is currently tied with Joey P. and Friendly Lover for most wins all-time in state-bred stakes company with six.

It’s one of the few things she has left to accomplish after winning short, long, on the dirt, on the turf and in the slop during a 23-race career that has seen her win nine times and bank $532,481.

“She’s so versatile. She’s just an honest, terrific mare,” said trainer Chuck Spina. “Long, short, turf, dirt, slop . . . she can do it all and she has won all different ways.”

Saturday’s $85,000 Jersey Girl, which attracted a field of eight, is scheduled for a mile on the grass. It’s probably not the ideal distance and surface for Mia’s Crusade but she did manage to win the race by a nose last year over Riding Pretty.

And she comes into her third start of the year off a 4½-length win in the one-mile (on dirt) Smart N Classy Handicap on June 1 at Monmouth Park. Her 81 Beyer Speed Figure for that race was the second-highest of her career.

“She’s training super,” said Spina. “She couldn’t be doing better. She looks to me like she is coming into this race the same way she did in the Smart N Classy. She’s a very honest, terrific mare.”

Owned by Prancing Horse Farm, Mia’s Crusade can attribute some of her success to being limited to no more than five starts a year, with the exception of her 3-year-old campaign when she had seven starts.

“She’s really lightly raced. She’s six years old but she only runs five times a year, and almost all of the time at Monmouth Park,” said Spina. “She only has 23 starts. She doesn’t have a lot of breeding, so we’re in no rush to breed her.

“As long as she stays sound and we give her the winter off, like we do with almost all of our Jersey-breds, she can keep competing. She just keeps going.”

Of the seven Jersey-bred fillies and mares 3 and up opposing Mia’s Crusader, Spina is particularly concerned about two: The Tim Shaw-trained Precious Avary, who has become a successful grass specialist, and rival Riding pretty, trained by Eddie Owens.

“Precious Avary is really good on the turf, which concerns me,” said Spina, who will also send out There Are No Words in Sunday’s Irish War Cry Handicap at a mile on the turf for Jersey-breds. “And Riding Pretty is always tough. But they will know she’s in there. She tries every time.”

Paco Lopez, Monmouth Park’s perennial riding leader, will be aboard for the second straight race.

Though she has won Jersey-bred stakes races at six furlongs on the dirt, at five furlongs and a mile on the turf, and now at a mile on the dirt – as well as one sprinting in the slop – Spina said her strength “is probably six furlongs in the slop.”

“But she has proven she can run on any surface at any distance,” he said.