C Summers trained Mind Your Biscuits gets a double at the 2018 Dubai Golden Shaheen. In the process he also got his revenge on Roy H for the defeat in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint. He was running in with the crowd and for a min it felt like it might go in for a photo finish but Mind Your Biscuits go himself separated from the rest and secure the first position.
“We had lost four in a row but we had reasons for all four,” Summers said. “He’s a horse that knows where the wire is and he just never gives up. For my staff in New York and Florida and internationally it’s such an unbelievable thing for them - the team that gets everything done. It’s never about the trainer and never should be about the trainer. For the horse, it’s important he showed who the real Mind Your Biscuits was.”
Stablemates X Y Jet and Roy H looked good in the race as well. However Roy H failed to impress and only had to settle for a third. The J Navarro trained and Emisael Jaramillo season racer, X Y jet came in second. Jockey Emisael Jaramillo said "I was told to break on terms but the horse to my outside was much faster away. He showed plenty of speed and I thought I had the race won. He ran great."
P Miller trained and Kent Desormeaux ridden Roy H came in third. Jockey Kent Desormeaux,"He stumbled leaving the gate and after one length we were eight lengths back. He made up five lengths quite quickly but then got hit across the head by a neighbour's whip and it was all too much for him. He was the best horse in the race."
By Apurva Chavan, Racing Writer, apurva.chavan@secretariatsworld.com