Mind Your Biscuits returning to New York
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ELMONT, N.Y. – While a dozen or so New York-bred sprinters were set to do battle in Friday’s $100,000 Affirmed Success Stakes at Belmont Park, the top statebred sprinter will soon be returning to training.
Mind Your Biscuits, the winner of the $2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen at Meydan in March, is expected to ship to trainer Chad Summers’s Belmont Park barn on Monday to prepare for the second half of the year.
Mind Your Biscuits has been at Taylor Made Farm in Kentucky since he returned to the U.S. from Dubai.
Summers said that while he will keep an eye on the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont on June 10, a more likely target for Mind Your Biscuits is the Grade 2, $350,000 Belmont Sprint Championship on July 8.
Summers said he would watch the Grade 3 Westchester on May 6 at Belmont with interest to see if that race produces a top contender for the Met Mile. Connect, the Grade 1 Cigar Mile winner, and Mohaymen are both expected for the Westchester.
Summers said the Grade 1 Forego at Saratoga on Aug. 26 is the major summer goal for Mind Your Biscuits. The major year-end goal is the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Del Mar. Mind Your Biscuits finished third in last year’s BC Sprint. He was elevated to second after the disqualification from purse money of runner-up Masochistic.
“He comes back Monday morning,” Summers said. “He’s doing good. He’s put on 60 pounds since he got over to Taylor Made. We’re excited about the second half of the year. Our goal is to try and get him a championship. We know the races you got to win to earn that title.”
Summers just took out his trainer’s license this year. He said he has 10 horses at Palm Meadows and will have 30 in New York split between Belmont and Saratoga.