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Mind Your Biscuits steps up with G2 Amsterdam win
- Updated: July 31, 2016
10:11 PM ET
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Mind Your Biscuits proved he’s more than just a very good New York-bred 3-year-old when he stepped up to graded stakes company for the first time on Saturday at Saratoga to win the Grade 2 Amsterdam under a rail-skimming ride by Joel Rosario.
Mind Your Biscuits’s victory gave his 22-year-old trainer, Robert Falcone Jr., the first graded stakes win of his career.
Falcone’s decision to put blinkers on Mind Your Biscuits for his last start has seemingly made a huge difference. A son of Posse, Mind Your Biscuits rallied to a convincing 9-1/4-length allowance win against statebreds with the equipment change in his last start at Belmont Park, and he ran back to that effort in the 6-1/2-furlong Amsterdam.
Maniacal, as expected, controlled the early pace while stalked from the outset by Its All Relevant and King Kranz through splits of 22.36 and 45.41 seconds for the …
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