Mind Your Biscuits sizzles in Breeders' Cup Sprint work

ELMONT, N.Y. – Mind Your Biscuits picked up the pace in his preparations for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint by working a sharp half-mile in 46.72 seconds Saturday morning over the Belmont Park main track.

The move, timed in splits of 23.12 and 23.60, was done immediately after the track reopened following the 8:30 a.m. renovation break. Joel Rosario, the colt’s regular rider, was aboard for the breeze. Mind Your Biscuits galloped out five furlongs in 59.65.

The move was the third and most serious for Mind Your Biscuits since he finished sixth, eight lengths behind Drefong, in the Grade 1 Forego at Saratoga on Aug. 26.

“I thought he went well, did it on his own,” trainer Chad Summers said. “We obviously wanted him to get something out of the work, being that he’s not going to have a prep race. I thought he did it how we wanted. I was pleased with how he galloped out. I had him galloping out in 59, 1:12.80, and 1:26.40, and that was just as important as the work itself. He wasn’t under a drive or anything like that. Joel told us he felt like he did before the Belmont Sprint, so that makes us happy.”

Mind Your Biscuits won the Grade 2 Belmont Sprint Championship on July 8. Prior to that, he won the Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen. His performance in the Forego was a bit of a head-scratcher, though Summers said he had some concerns about the colt’s training prior to that race.

Summers believes Mind Your Biscuits is training better since getting back to Belmont and is hoping that the horse simply didn’t like Saratoga. Mind Your Biscuits will have two more works at Belmont before leaving Oct. 24 and then will have a blowout the week of the Breeders’ Cup.

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