Mind Your Biscuits Tends to Business in Belmont Sprint
The New York-bred took jockey Joel Rosario on a spin around Big Sandy and cruised to an easy $350,000 payday in the Belmont Sprint Championship Stakes (G2).
Green Gratto
- Dark Bay or Brown Colt
- Born 2010
- NJ-Bred
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Carter
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Carter Handicap
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Carter Handicap
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Carter Handicap
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Carter Handicap
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Carter Handicap
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Carter Handicap
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Carter Handicap
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Carter Handicap
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Carter Handicap
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Carter Handicap
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Carter Handicap
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#7 Green Gratto with jockey Chris DeCarlo aboard holds off a late rally from favorite #8 Unified with jockey Javier Castellano in the 117th running of the Grade 1 Carter at Aqueduct Race Track Saturday April 8, 2017 in Ozone Park, N.Y.
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#7 Green Gratto with jockey Chris DeCarlo aboard holds off a late rally from favorite #8 Unified with jockey Javier Castellano in the 117th running of the Grade 1 Carter at Aqueduct Race Track Saturday April 8, 2017 in Ozone Park, N.Y.
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Carter
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Carter
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Carter
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Carter
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Carter
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Toboggan Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Toboggan Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Toboggan Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Toboggan Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Toboggan Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct
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Green Gratto wins the 2017 Toboggan Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct
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Green Gratto, with Jose Ortiz, wins the Hockessin Stakes at Delaware Park on July 16, 2016.
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Green Gratto with Jose Ortiz win the Hockessin Stakes at Delaware Park on July 16, 2016.
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Green Gratto wins the 2015 Gravesend Stakes.
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Green Gratto wins the Gravesend Stakes.
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Green Gratto wins the Gravesend Stakes.
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Green Gratto wins the 2015 Fall Highweight.
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Green Gratto wins the 2015 Fall Highweight.
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Green Gratto holds off Palace to win the Fall Highweight Handicap.
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Mind Your Biscuits Wears Bull's-Eye in Belmont Sprint
Mind Your Biscuits will bear a bull's-eye that six challengers will zero in on during the Belmont Sprint Championship Stakes (G2) at Belmont Park.
Green Gratto Pulls Carter Stunner
Gaston and Anthony Grant's veteran performer Green Gratto broke through for his first top-level score in his 53rd career start, holding off 4-5 favorite Unified at the wire to pull the upset in the $400,000 Carter Handicap (G1).
Unified Takes Grade 1 Aim in Carter Handicap
After winning four of his first five starts, Centennial Farms' Unified will try grade 1 company for the first time in the $400,000 Carter Handicap (G1) April 8 at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Venerable Spartiatis Gets Tom Fool Victory
One year after making his graded stakes debut in the $200,000 Tom Fool Handicap (G3), 7-year-old gelding Spartiatis used the six-furlong test to notch his first graded stakes triumph March 11.
Green Gratto Totes High Weight in Tom Fool at Big A
Green Gratto will be making his 52nd lifetime start when he faces seven opponents in the Tom Fool Handicap, in which he will carry high weight of 119 pounds. Chief Lion is a threat to compromise Green Gratto on the front end.
Green Gratto Grinds Out Toboggan Win
Gaston and Anthony Grant's Green Gratto grinded out a gate-to-wire win, where he was pressured every step of the way, in the Toboggan Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct Racetrack Jan. 16.
Stallwalkin’ Dude Faces Familiar Foes in Toboggan
Head of Plains Partners and David Jacobson's Stallwalkin' Dude will line up against familiar sprinters in the the six-furlong Toboggan Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct Racetrack Jan. 16.
Stallwalkin' Dude Scores in Gravesend
Stallwalkin' Dude gained the lead in the final furlong and outkicked Green Gratto by two lengths to win the $100,000 Gravesend Stakes Dec. 18 at Aqueduct Racetrack.
A. P. Indian Gets Rail Trip to Sprint Victory
The rail was dead earlier on the July 9 card at Belmont Park, but that didn't stop jockey Joe Bravo from taking the inside path to victory aboard A. P. Indian in the $400,000 Belmont Sprint Championship Stakes (gr. III).
Litfin at Large: Stars and Stripes Festival
The Stars and Stripes Festival, part of the July 9 Belmont Park card, features two grade I turf races and three other graded stakes races, and is expected to feature Effinex and Catch a Glimpse.
Private Zone Finally Gets Chance to Start
Private Zone, scratched from the June 10 True North Stakes (gr. II) in New York due to trainer Brian Lynch's positive drug test for marijuana, will get the chance to make his season debut in the $400,000 Belmont Sprint Championship Stakes (gr. III).
Mr. Jordan, Green Gratto Face Off in Salvator
Stakes winners Nonna's Boy and Res Judicata also are contesting the race, seeking their first graded stakes wins.
Rocket Heat, Ready for Rye Head Jaipur Cast
The Jaipur (gr. IIIT) will feature a charge of the light brigade as 14 horses sprint over the Belmont Park turf going six furlongs.
Green Gratto Named Top 2015 New Jersey-Bred
Anthony and Gaston Grant's Green Gratto, winner of the Fall Highweight (gr. III), has been named New Jersey-bred Horse of the Year for 2015.
Salutos Amigos, Calculator Duel in Carter
Salutos Amigos and Calculator, who both spent the winter in California but didn't meet up out there, will hook up back in New York as two late runners who should benefit from a hot early pace in the Carter.
Page McKenney Sprints to General George Win
Page McKenney, a 6-year-old route specialist, posted his first graded stakes victory and first in a sprint Feb. 15 when he wore down Majestic Affair to win the General George Stakes (gr. III) at Laurel Park.
Green Gratto Among Nine in General George
Green Gratto, who has become a force in the New York sprinter ranks in the fall and winter, is among nine horses entered for the $250,000 General George Stakes (gr. III) Feb. 15 at Laurel Park.
Dads Caps to Return in Toboggan Stakes
Two-time Carter Handicap (gr. I) winner Dads Caps is scheduled to make his first start in more than seven months in the $150,000 Toboggan Stakes (gr. III) Jan. 30 at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Green Gratto Speeds Away in Gravesend Stakes
Gaston and Anthony Grant's Green Gratto opened a seven-length lead turning for home and was never threatened in the stretch in the $100,000 Gravesend Stakes Dec. 26 at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Palace Heads Gravesend for Curtain Call
Multiple graded stakes winner Palace will squeeze in one more start, the $100,000 Gravesend Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack Dec. 26, before retiring to stud at Spendthrift Farm.
'Highweight' Top Three Entered in Gravesend
Aqueduct Racetrack will return from the Christmas break Dec. 26 with the top three finishers in the Fall Highweight Handicap (gr. III) set to square off in the $100,000 Gravesend Stakes at six furlongs.
Green Gratto Stuns Fall Highweight Field
Green Gratto, the longest shot on the board, won the $250,000 Fall Highweight Handicap (gr. III) Nov. 26 at Aqueduct. The New Jersey-bred son of Here's Zealous covered the six furlongs in 1:09.95.
Matrooh Takes Bold Ruler at Belmont
Shadwell Stable's Matrooh was an emphatic winner Oct. 31 in the Bold Ruler Handicap (gr. III) at Belmont Park, upsetting even-money favorite El Kabeir.
El Kabeir Makes Return in Bold Ruler 'Cap
Off since being scratched from the Kentucky Derby (gr. I), Zayat Stables' El Kabeir will make his return in the Oct. 31 Bold Ruler Handicap (gr. III) at Belmont Park.
Grade I Winners Meet in Belmont Sprint
Grade I winners The Big Beast and Private Zone will face off in the $400,000 Belmont Sprint Championship Stakes (gr. III) July 4 at Belmont Park.
Dads Caps Repeats in Aqueduct's Carter
Vincent Scuderi's homebred Dads Caps overtook longshot Green Gratto in midstretch and went on to post his second consecutive victory in the $400,000 Carter Handicap (gr. I) at Aqueduct Racetrack April 4.
'Salutos,' Dads Caps Clash Again in Tom Fool
Salutos Amigos, carrying topweight of 125 pounds, will try for three in a row against his arch rival in six-furlong test
Connections
| Trainer | Gaston Grant |
|---|---|
| Jockey | Irad Ortiz, Jr. |
| Owner | Grant, Gaston and Grant, Anthony |
| Breeder | Kaz Hill Farm |
Pedigree
| Green Gratto View Five-Cross Pedigree | Here's Zealous | Dehere |
| Zealous Connection | ||
| Starship Smokester | Smokester | |
| Admiral Minnie |
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