Mind Your Biscuits, a late-running third in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint last out, worked five furlongs in 59.96 seconds Tuesday morning over Belmont Park’s main track in preparation for a start in the Grade 1, $750,000 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct on Dec. 2.

With new rider Irad Ortiz Jr. up, Mind Your Biscuits began his work about six lengths behind stablemate Maimo, a 2-year-old maiden. Mind Your Biscuits went his opening quarter in 24.07 seconds and came to the top of the lane in 35.26 gradually advancing toward his workmate. Mind Your Biscuits caught Maimo by the three sixteenths pole and finsihed about six lengths in front of that horse at the wire. Mind Your Biscuits galloped out six furlongs in 1:13.53 and seven furlongs in 1:26.81.

Trainer Chad Summers, who said he liked what he saw from Mind Your Biscuits on Tuesday, noted it would be the most serious move Mind Your Biscuits will have in the four weeks between the Breeders’ Cup and the Cigar Mile. Summers said Mind Your Biscuits could blow out a quarter or three furlongs next week.

Ortiz will replace Joel Rosario who had ridden Mind Your Biscuits in his last seven starts and 11 of 18 overall. Rosario will ride Practical Joke in the Cigar Mile. Ortiz rode Mind Your Biscuits once, winning a New York-bred maiden race by 7 1-2 lengths at Aqueduct in April 2016.

“He loved him when he breezed him before the Breeders’ Cup,” Summers said. “I’m excited to have him ride us in the Cigar Mile.”

Mind Your Biscuits, a son of Posse, has only tried a mile once, that resulting in a fourth-place finish behind Governor Malibu in a New York-bred maiden race at Aqueduct two years ago.

“We moved too early that day, he got a little tired late,” Summers said. “I always thought the way he trains, the way he acts,the way he gallops out in his races that he can definitely get at least a mile.”

There are 17 horses nominated to the Cigar Mile. Those expected to run, with riders, include Americanize (Rafael Bejarano), Beasley (Junior Alvarado), Mind Your Biscuits (Irad Ortiz Jr.,) Neolithic (undecided), Practical Joke (Joel Rosario), Seymourdini (Jose Ortiz), Sharp Azteca (Javier Castellano), Summer Revolution (undecided), Tale of S’avall (John Velazquez), and Tom’s Ready (Mike Smith). Vulcan’s Forge is a possible starter.

Also working Tuesday morning  at Belmont was Highway Star, the multiple graded stakes winning New York-bred filly who went a half-mile in 47.97 seconds under jockey Hector Diaz Jr. Highway Star went her opening quarter in 24.44 and her second quarter in 23.53. She is nominated to the Grade 3, $200,000 Go for Wand Handicap, a race she won last year, to be run on Dec. 2 but trainer Rodrigo Ubillo said no decision has been made yet whether she will run in that race.

“She looked good out there,” Ubillo said of the work.

Highway Star finished a disappointing 11th in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint, 14 1-2 lengths behind 65-1 winner Bar of Gold, both fillies being owned and bred by Chester and Mary Broman.

Ubillo didn’t want to talk much about the Breeders’ Cup other than saying he was “confused” by the race. Highway Star, ridden by Angel Arroyo, was a bit close to a hot early pace of 21.84 seconds and 44.35 before fading.