Mind Your Biscuits now all-time highest-earning New York-bred

Mind Your Biscuits’s victory in Saturday’s Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen will be remembered for his heart-stopping stretch drive, but will also be noted as the race that made him the highest-earning New York-bred of all time.

The win increased Mind Your Biscuits’s lifetime earnings to $3,719,286, surpassing the record of $3,529,412 held by champion Funny Cide, who kept the title for more than a decade.

Mind Your Biscuits, a 5-year-old Posse horse, was bred in New York by Samantha Will Baccari’s Jumping Jack Racing, out of the unraced Toccet mare Jazzmane. Canadian champion Kimchi is in the extended family.

The Baccaris sold Jazzmane eight months after Mind Your Biscuits was born, in foal again to Posse, to Korean interests for $11,000 at the 2013 Keeneland November breeding stock sale. Since relocating to Korea, Jazzmane has produced foals by Officer, Tiz Wonderful, and Chapel Royal.

Mind Your Biscuits ended up with a partnership including J Stables, M. Scott Summers, Hope Summers, and Daniel Summers. The group later added Sol Kumin’s Head of Plains Partners and Michael Kisber. Chad Summers, son of M. Scott Summers, trains the horse.

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Mind Your Biscuits and Funny Cide took different paths to the top – but with a few convergences. Both horses began among the New York-bred ranks, and they earned their first black type in a restricted stakes race – Mind Your Biscuits with a third in the New York Breeders’ Futurity at Finger Lakes, and Funny Cide with a win in the Bertram F. Bongard Stakes at Belmont.

Their careers branched apart from that starting point. Mind Your Biscuits continued to race locally until late in his 3-year-old season, when a win in the Grade 2 Amsterdam Stakes at Saratoga propelled him into the national sprinter ranks. Funny Cide took a more conventional route to the top, becoming the champion 3-year-old male of 2003 with wins in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, a third in the Haskell Invitational Stakes, and a fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

The trademark for both runners has been sustained success over multiple campaigns. Mind Your Biscuits has won a Grade 1 or Group 1 race each of the last three years, while Funny Cide raced until age 7 and won stakes races in five of his six seasons.

The most immediate challenger to Mind Your Biscuits’s title is Moanin, a 6-year-old Henny Hughes horse who races for lucrative purses in Japan and won the Group 1 February Stakes in 2016. He moved into sixth place Saturday with a win in the Coral Stakes at Hanshin Racecourse, which boosted his earnings to $2,222,866.

Looking down the road, Kentucky Derby contender Audible has put himself in good position to challenge for the top spot with a strong campaign through the remainder of the year. The 3-year-old Into Mischief colt grew his earnings to $882,920 on Saturday with a win in the Grade 1 Florida Derby, following up his victory in the Grade 2 Holy Bull Stakes.