By Brian DiDonato
Impressive G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen winner Mind Your Biscuits (Posse) makes his first start back in the States in Saturday's GII Belmont Sprint Championship, a “Win and You're In” for the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint. Third across the wire but awarded second purse money for last year's BC Sprint, the chestnut defeated speedy Sharp Azteca (Freud) in Santa Anita's GI Malibu S. Dec. 26 in his final start for trainer Robert Falcone, Jr. Co-owner Chad Summers took over training duties after that, and saddled the newly turned 4-year-old to a neck second behind 'TDN Rising Star' Unified (Candy Ride {Arg}) in the Feb. 25 GIII Gulfstream Park Sprint. The Mar. 25 Golden Shaheen was the first victory for Summers as a trainer. “Every time we've set a goal for this horse, he's just run right through it,” Summers told the NYRA press department. “We've been pointing for this race since Dubai, so we're expecting a big effort. This is a really solid group and we're going in there ready for action. There's not another horse in the entire country–including [the world's top-rated racehorse] Arrogate (Unbridled's Song)–that I'd rather go to war with.” Unified won the first three races of his career, including the GIII Bay Shore S. going short last April and the GII Peter Pan S. on the stretch-out the following month. Benched after a puzzlingly poor effort in the GIII Pegasus S. last June, he came out swinging in the Gulfstream Sprint before just missing by a neck to 54-1 frontrunner Green Gratto (Here's Zealous) in Aqueduct's Apr. 8 GI Carter H. Tommy Macho (Macho Uno) was a troubled third that day, and filled the same position in the GI Metropolitan H. June 10. Awesome Slew (Awesome Again) a winner of Keeneland's GIII Commonwealth S. Apr. 8 and a head second in the May 6 GII Churchill Downs S.–both at this seven-furlong distance–was fourth in the Met Mile.
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