Multiple Grade/Group 1 winner Mind Your Biscuits, the highest-earning New York-bred of all time, has died at Shadai Farm in Japan, where he has stood his entire stud career. The son of Posse was 13. The Japanese media site ZBAT wrote on Tuesday that the stallion “had been behaving normally and in good health, but his condition suddenly worsened after breeding in the afternoon of that day, and he passed away.” Teruya Yoshida, a representative for Shadai, told ZBAT, “I'm shocked that he suddenly passed away. He was only 13 years old and still young, and he was producing good offspring, so it's truly regrettable.” Bred in New York by Jumping Jack Racing, Mind Your Biscuits did not meet his reserve at the 2014 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale. Afterward, Chad Summers, then working as a bloodstock agent, put together a group to privately purchase the colt that included himself and several family members. Through the horse's career, the ownership partnership would shift and grow several times. Mind Your Biscuits began his career with Roderick Rodriguez before being turned over to Robert Falcone Jr., for whom he won the Grade 2 Amsterdam Stakes and the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes in 2016, and also hit the board in two other graded stakes, including the Breeders' Cup Sprint, in which he crossed the line third but was moved to second by a disqualification. When Summers took out his training license, he took over Mind Your Biscuits himself in 2017. He went on to win two editions of the Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen, in 2017 and 2018; the Grade 2 Belmont Sprint Championship in 2017; and the Grade 3 Lukas Classic in 2018. He hit the board in four additional Grade 1 stakes during that span, including a third in the 2017 Breeders' Cup Sprint, and missing by just a nose in the 2018 Metropolitan Handicap. Mind Your Biscuits retired at the end of the 2018 season with a record of 25-8-10-3 and earnings of $4,279,566. On the all-time earnings list for New York-breds, that ranks him ahead of dual classic winner and champion Funny Cide, who retired in 2007 with $3,529,412 in earnings. Mind Your Biscuits was Japan's leading freshman sire of 2022. He is the sire of 220 winners from 310 starters to date, including four stakes winners. His son Derma Sotogake is a stakes performer in four different countries, highlighted by a victory in the Group 2 UAE Derby which earned him a spot in the 2023 Kentucky Derby, where he finished sixth. In his next start, six months later, he was second in the Breeders' Cup Classic, beaten just a length by White Abarrio. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.