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Mind Control Aims To Go Out in Style in G1 Cigar Mile

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Mind Control Aims To Go Out in Style in G1 Cigar Mile

Mind Control is aiming to go out in style in G1 Cigar Mile. Mind Control will go after G2 John A. Nerud.

Mind Control is a dual Grade 1-winner. He will take part in Saturday's $750,000 Cigar Mile Handicap at Aqueduct Racetrack. It will be his final start before heading off to a stallion career. A stud deal will likely be finalized in the days following the Cigars Mile. He is by 2012 Cigare winner and Pletcher alumnus Stay Thirsty. His father, Forty Niner, produced 1996 winner Gold Fever. The Cigas Mile is the final NYRA Grade One. They are the first father-son team to win it since 1988.

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