Mind Your Biscuits Rises to Occasion in Golden Shaheen

With lightning flashing in the distance, Mind Your Biscuits flashed down the Meydan Racecourse stretch.

Winning the March 25 Dubai Golden Shaheen Sponsored By Gulf News (G1) by three lengths, the New York-bred son of Posse gave Chad Summers his first win as a trainer and picked up the second grade 1 of his career.

A pair of locals, Comicas and Morawij, finished second and third, with American runner St. Joe Bay finishing fourth and fellow American Stallwalkin' Dude sixth in the 1,200-meter (about six-furlong) dash. The track was rated muddy on a day that featured torrential rain during the morning and threatening skies throughout the evening.

Mind Your Biscuits, a 4-year-old bred by Jumping Jack Racing, drew post 14 on the far outside for the Golden Shaheen—but the draw posed no problem for jockey Joel Rosario. As the field hit mid-stretch, he had his colt in full stride, still well out toward the middle of the track. With 100 meters to go, the issue no longer was in doubt.

"We were confident," Summers said. "This was the race we had in mind when I took out my trainers' license."

Summers, part of the ownership team, took over the training duties after Mind Your Biscuits won the Dec. 26 Malibu Stakes (G1) at Santa Anita Park. In his last start and first for Summers, Mind Your Biscuits finished a neck back of Unified in the Feb. 25 Gulfstream Park Sprint Handicap (G3).

Rosario said he hoped to work out a ground-saving trip for Mind Your Biscuits, but was never able to get near the rail.

"I was way out there," Rosario admitted. "He just put in the run he always has at the end."

Summers said the emergence of Mind Your Biscuits provides his team with many prospects for the remainder of the year. The Metropolitan Handicap (G1) is "under consideration," pending evaluation of the horse, he said, along with other major East Coast sprints.

Mind Your Biscuits is out of the Toccet mare Jazzmane. He is owned by group headed by J Stables and Head of Plains Partners.

"Sometimes you need to find a diamond in the rough," Summers said. "It might be my name on the papers now, but it's a total team effort."

Earlier in 2016 Mind Your Biscuits won the Amsterdam Stakes (G2) at Saratoga Race Course, and finished third but was elevated to second in the TwinSpires Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1). He was previously trained by Robert Falcone Jr. Mind Your Biscuits now has five wins from 15 starts, with six seconds and two thirds for earnings of $2,015,166.