OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Rick Dutrow ran Sculcos Folly for a claiming price three times so, yes, he is surprised the son of Redesdale is going for his second straight stakes victory in Saturday’s $200,000 Mind Your Biscuits Stakes, one of two New York Stallion Series races that comprise a rare eight-race Saturday card at Aqueduct. Entries remain light in New York – perhaps that will change with the expected start of turf racing next week – which would explain why there are only eight races here Saturday. The Mind Your Biscuits, named for the all-time leading money-earning New York-bred and Grade 1 winner, drew only five and is carded as race 6. Sculcos Folly has won four of his last five, a streak that includes two claiming races and the Gander Stakes, the latter a one-mile race he won by 5 3/4 lengths on March 7. “I think he’s surprised everyone so far,” said Dutrow, who trains Sculcos Folly for owner Michael Dubb. “He’s a pleasant surprise.” Part of that surprise is due to the manner in which he trains. Sculcos Folly has half-mile workouts timed in 51 and 53 seconds. :: Access the most trusted data and information in horse racing! DRF Past Performances and Picks are available now. “He breezes slow, but after the breeze, the jockeys that breeze him they are smiling, they are happy with him and I’m saying to myself well, as long as they’re happy and this horse is happy, I’m not going to tell them to go down there in 48,” Dutrow said. “I’m going to let him breeze the way he wants to.” Sculcos Folly has recorded three wins in front-running fashion. Saturday, he will face the speedy Illmatic, who comes off a front-running, six-length maiden victory on Feb. 28, an effort for which he earned a 91 Beyer Speed Figure. Sculcos Folly did come from slightly off the pace to win his maiden, albeit for claiming $25,000. Saturday, he leaves from post 5 under Jaime Rodriguez and is the co-highweight at 124 pounds. Illmatic will carry 120 pounds with Manny Franco aboard, and breaks from post 4. “If he breaks slow and [Illmatic] goes to the lead, it’s not going to bother me because I’ve seen Sculcos sit and come running,” Dutrow said. The late-running Sunday Boy, who upset the $500,000 Great White Way division of the NYSS in December, makes his first start since then for trainer Jimmy Ryerson. He will break from the rail under Chris Elliott. Fourstar Crook Despite having just one win from five starts to her credit, Hot Currency looms a short-priced favorite in the $200,000 Fourstar Crook division of the NYSS, a 6 1/2-furlong dirt race named for a Grade 1-winning New York-bred mare who raced exclusively on turf. Hot Currency, a daughter of Central Banker trained by Linda Rice, has three Beyer Speed Figures in the mid 70s. Only one other horse in the eight-horse field – the debut winner Greek Goddess – has a number in the 60s. Hot Currency’s last three races – a win and two seconds – came after trainer Linda Rice equipped her with blinkers. She won a maiden first time with blinkers before finishing second in the $500,000 Fifth Avenue division of the NYSS. Hot Currency is expected to be elevated to first after the adjudication of a medication positive for the winner Braverthanubelieve, who tested positive for the regulated medication Dexamethasone after that race. Following the Fifth Avenue, Hot Currency finished second as the 4-5 favorite in a first-level allowance for statebreds, though Rice has a theory as to what happened that day. “She was a little gun shy on the inside, she had her head cocked out like she was a little intimidated being in tight quarters there,” Rice said. “The blinkers, we opened them up a little bit and that looked like a mistake. We’re going to have to close them up a little bit for her.” The main threat to Hot Currency looks to be Greek Goddess, who won her debut at this 6 1/2-furlong distance by 1 3/4 lengths on Feb. 6. The second- and third-place finishers from that race, Sugartown Sweetie and Rock Steady Babe, came back to run one-two in a maiden race on Feb. 28. Queen Sally, fourth in the Feb. 6 race, won a maiden $40,000 claiming race by three lengths in her next start. Greek Goddess, by Name Changer, is out of the dam Behrnik’s Bank, who was a two-time stakes winner at Penn National. Behrnik’s Bank is a half-sister to Kazmike who won the Times Square division of the NYSS in 2022, the race that now is known as the Mind Your Biscuits. Rock Steady Babe, is wheeling back quick after a fourth-place finish in a maiden race on March 27. She does figure to get a strong enough pace to close into in this spot. Dutrow said he is likely to scratch Power of Women unless there are other defections. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.