Mind Your Biscuits will skip second prep for Dubai

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Chad Summers seriously considered running Mind Your Biscuits in the Gulfstream Park Sprint here next Saturday before deciding the 5-year-old horse will go straight to the March 31 Dubai Golden Shaheen without a second prep race. Mind Your Biscuits won the $2 million race last year.

“Originally the plan was to get two preps into him,” said Summers. “But he ran kind of faster and harder than I thought” when second in a Feb. 9 allowance at Gulfstream.

“That was a good tightener. He’s been knocking down the barn and doing well, and I just thought it best that we have a fresh horse for Dubai.”

March 20 is the shipping date for all of the American horses headed to the Dubai Carnival at Meydan.

Without Mind Your Biscuits, the Grade 3, $100,000 Gulfstream Sprint is expected to have Favorable Outcome, Three Rules, Noholdingback Bear, and Extravagant Kid as the top contenders. It’s one of nine stakes on a Saturday card topped by the $400,000 Fountain of Youth.

At least 10 3-year-olds were expected for the 1 1/16-mile Fountain of Youth when entries are taken Wednesday: Good Magic, Free Drop Billy, Strike Power, Storm Runner, Promises Fulfilled, Marconi, Impact Player, Machismo, He Takes Charge, and Belle Tapisserie.