Lukas Classic next stop for Mind Your Biscuits

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y – Chad Summers did not nominate Whitney runner-up Mind Your Biscuits to the Grade 1, $750,000 Woodward Stakes. But when he sent the New York-bred Grade 1 winner out to work Friday morning at Saratoga, he left the door open to supplement him to the race if he really worked well.

Mind Your Biscuits went five furlongs in 1:02.19 and after the move Summers confirmed that Mind Your Biscuits would make his next start in the Grade 3, $200,000 Lukas Classic going 1 1/8 miles on Sept. 29 at Churchill Downs.

“It was fine, but I needed to have my socks knocked off to go in the Woodward,” Summers said. “He’s a horse that if you don’t know him very well, you don’t know how fast or slow he’s going.”

Luis Saez worked Mind Your Biscuits on Friday. Joel Rosario is the regular rider of Mind Your Biscuits, but he is committed to ride Accelerate in the Grade 1 Awesome Again at Santa Anita on the same day. Summers said he has not made a commitment to Saez or anybody else for the Lukas Classic.

Summers wants to see how Mind Your Biscuits runs in the Lukas Classic while analyzing a bevy of other stakes before he decides whether to point Mind Your Biscuits to the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, Dirt Mile, or Classic.