Mint Lover and Gr.1 Winner Mind Your Biscuits Heads To Japan After Retirement
The 5-year-old son of Posse Multiple and multi Gr.1 winning entire, Mind Your Biscuits, was officially retired by trainer and co-owner Chad Summers. He will will stand the 2019 season at Shadai Farm in Abira on Hokkaido island.
Summers was contemplating giving one more start either in the Gr.1 Cigar Mile Handicap or the Gr.1 Clark Handicap. However in his first gallop after his Breeders' Cup Classic race, Mind Your Biscuits didn't show the same level of enthusiasm Summers has come to expect from the chestnut.
The decision to start Mind Your Biscuits in the 10-furlong Classic was a bold one by his connections as they attempted to expand his résumé beyond that of a top-level sprinter.
In the Breeders' Cup Classic, however, he rated along in eighth and ninth down the backstretch and never got running from there—an effort Summers believes may have been because of an adverse reaction to the anti-bleeder medication Lasix.
Mind Your Biscuits rewarded Summers by giving him his first graded stakes win in the Gr.1 Dubai Golden Shaheen (2017). Summers repeated his victory dance in this year's edition when the horse put in a tremendous rally to defeat X Y Jet by a head, with champion Roy H third.
Summers said Mind Your Biscuits will head to Darby Dan Farm in Lexington to quarantine before shipping him to Japan .
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