Trainer Brendon Hill choked back tears as he heaped praise on the little freak who won the Miracle Mile for New Zealand last night - and he wasn't talking about race winner Monkey King.

The pocket rocket capped an unbelievable month by obliterating the Australian mile record with an almost incomprehensible 1:50.8 time when downing Smoken Up in the action-packed A$500,000 glamour sprint at the Menangle track outside Sydney.

On the back of winning the New Zealand Cup and Free-For-All the Monkey is now the undoubted king of harness racing, having won over $1 million in the past 19 days.

But while Hill loves his horse it was his driver Ricky May who had him shaking his head after the race.

Hill had feared Monkey King settling close to last because of his lack of gate speed but May somehow found the one-one soon after the start and when Melpark Major savaged Smoken Up in front the Monkey was going to win a long way from home.

"I can't believe Ricky just did that. He is a freak," said Hill.

"We never thought in our wildest dreams we would be in the one-one, but that is Ricky, he just does the impossible."

The drive was the winning of the race, with Monkey King able to miss the early pressure but close enough to forge his way to victory in a 26.7-second last 400m that left back runners, like Auckland Reactor and Blacks A Fake, unable to make ground from the rear.

It was May's second Miracle Mile after a similar one-one drive on Iraklis in 1996 and was his 50th career group one victory.

"He is a great little horse and that time proves he is the best now," said May.

For Hill, the win capped a month beyond his wildest dreams but yesterday was fun, whereas the New Zealand Cup win of two weeks ago was more career-defining.

"The New Zealand Cup is such a big deal because you plan for it all season but you only really start thinking about the Miracle Mile a couple of weeks ago because you don't know you are going to get an invite.

"Winning the New Zealand Cup means everything but this is like fun. The pressure was off and we came over here hoping to take care of business but it was a bonus. But it's a pretty cool bonus."

Monkey King's month has catapulted him from a one-time feature race "gunner" to the second-richest pacer in New Zealand history.

He is now approaching $2.2 million in stakes and could break the record in the Victoria Cup on Friday week.

After that he will return to Sydney for the Interdominions in February and March before possibly trying to add the Auckland Cup to his bulging trophy cabinet.