Mind Your Biscuits, record-setting New York-bred sprinter, dies at 13

Mind Your Biscuits built his name the hard way, as a sharp New York-bred sprinter who could carry speed from Saratoga to Dubai and then turn that race-day brilliance into a second life as a stallion in Japan. The chestnut son of Posse out of Jazzmane, by Toccet, was foaled March 15, 2013, for Jumping Jack Racing and finished his career with 8 wins, 10 seconds and 3 thirds from 25 starts, earning $4,279,566, the most of any New York-bred in history.

On the track, his resume stretched far beyond state-bred distinction. He won the G2 Amsterdam at Saratoga, the G1 Malibu, the G2 Belmont Sprint Championship and the G2 Lukas Classic, and he twice conquered the G1 Dubai Golden Shaheen in 2017 and 2018. He also held his own against elite company in the Breeders' Cup Sprint, the Metropolitan Handicap, the Whitney and the Cigar Mile, a level of consistency that made him more than a one-race horse. Those Dubai wins were decisive in his place in New York racing history, pushing him past Funny Cide on the state-bred earnings list and cementing his reputation as the standard for the modern New York sprinter.

His influence widened after that second Dubai Golden Shaheen, when Shadai acquired him and sent him to Japan for stallion duty. He entered stud there in 2019 and stood at Shadai Stallion Station in Hokkaido, where his 2026 fee was listed at 2 million yen. The move turned him into a rare transnational figure in the breeding world, followed closely by horsemen in the United States and Japan alike. In December 2025, NYRA honored that impact by renaming a New York-sired stakes race at Aqueduct the Mind Your Biscuits division of the New York Stallion Series Stakes.

His legacy in Japan was already visible through his offspring, which numbered 220 winners with more than $25.4 million in combined earnings. Derma Sotogake became the most prominent example, carrying his sire’s name onto the world stage with a 2023 UAE Derby victory and a runner-up finish in the Breeders' Cup Classic. That made Mind Your Biscuits a breeder’s story as much as a racing story, with his bloodline linking New York dirt sprints to the international calendar.

His death on Tuesday, June 9, 2026, at Shadai Stallion Station was especially jarring because he had been behaving normally and was in good health before his condition worsened suddenly after an afternoon breeding session. Teruya Yoshida called the loss "truly regrettable" and said he was shocked that such a young and productive stallion could be gone so suddenly. Mind Your Biscuits leaves behind a record that reaches from Aqueduct and Saratoga to Hokkaido, and a rare place in both American and Japanese racing history.