Mind Your Biscuits Returns a Winner in BEL Sprint Championship

Mind Your Biscuits | Sarah Andrew

What Dubai hangover?

Mind Your Biscuits followed up on his spectacular G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen win Mar. 25 by taking another step toward champion sprinter honors with this dominant victory.

Capturing Saratoga's GII Amsterdam S. in his graded debut last summer, the New York-bred closed out his sophomore season with a third–later elevated to second–in the GI Twinspires Breeders' Cup Sprint Nov. 5 and a victory in the GI Malibu S. Dec. 26, both at Santa Anita.

Switched from the Robert Falcone, Jr. barn after that, Mind Your Biscuits came within a neck of running down the reopposing 'TDN Rising Star' Unified (Candy Ride {Arg}) in his Dubai prep in the GIII Gulfstream Park Sprint S. Feb. 25.

Favored in the wagering here, Mind Your Biscuits set up shop in fourth behind a :22.67 quarter. Dropping back a bit down the backside, the chestnut was given a reminder by Joel Rosario and rolled into contention passing the three-eighths pole. Sweeping to the fore three-deep at the head of the lane, he was briefly challenged by Awesome Slew outside the eighth pole, but quickly turned that foe back with a shake of the reins to win in style going away.

“We know how good he was training going into this,” winning trainer Chad Summers said. “There were still some doubters who said it was a subpar Dubai. We didn't think so. We know what he's capable of and we're ready for the rest of the year. It makes me think a mile won't be a problem for him, maybe a little bit further. He kept going and going and kicked away.

Summers added, “We'll go to the [GI] Forego [Aug. 26 at Saratoga] right now and then look at all options. But the Forego is our next goal and hopefully [win] an Eclipse Award as well.”

Pedigree Notes…

Mind Your Biscuits is by far the best runner for his unraced dam Jazzmane, who has a 100% winning record with her three runners to date. The half-sister to Canadian champion 3-year-old filly Kimchi (Langfuhr)'s unraced stock includes a 3-year-old full- sister to Mind Your Biscuits and a 2-year-old colt by Officer (Bertrando). Jazzmane brought $11,000 from K.O.I.D. at the 2013 KEENOV sale.

Saturday, Belmont Park
BELMONT SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIP S.-GII, $350,000, BEL, 7-8, 3yo/up, 7f, 1:21.84, ft.
1–MIND YOUR BISCUITS, 124, c, 4, by Posse
                1st Dam: Jazzmane, by Toccet
                2nd Dam: Alljazz, by Stop the Music
                3rd Dam: Bounteous, by Master Derby
($47,000 Ylg '14 KEEJAN; $47,000 RNA Ylg '14 SARAUG;
$47,000 RNA 2yo '15 OBSAPR). O-J Stables LLC, Head of Plains
Partners LLC, Summers, Summers, Kisber et al.; B-Jumping Jack
Racing LLC (NY); T-Chad Summers; J-Joel Rosario. $192,000.
Lifetime Record: GISW-US & G1SW-UAE, 16-6-6-2, $2,207,166.
Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick
   Rating: A++ (1 SW).[bullet ad=”allied-bloodstock”][bullet ad=”imagine”][bullet ad=”machmer-hall-pinhooked-by”][bullet ad=”selectsales-shell”][bullet ad=”bswbloodstock-lizcrow-privatepurchase”]2–Awesome Slew, 120, c, 4, Awesome Again–Slewfoundmoney,
by Seeking the Gold. O-Live Oak Plantation; B-Live Oak Stud
(FL); T-Mark E. Casse. $70,000.
3–Tommy Macho, 120, h, 5, Macho Uno–Starstream, by
Awesome Again. ($25,000 Ylg '13 FTKOCT). O-Paul Pompa, Jr.
& J Stables; B-John Liviakis (KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher. $42,000.[bullet ad=”warhorseplace-bornraisedsold”][bullet ad=”106322″][bullet ad=”winstar-train”]Margins: 3HF, 1, 4 3/4. Odds: 1.40, 5.90, 7.00.
Also Ran: Stallwalkin' Dude, Green Gratto, Fellowship, Unified. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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