Milk It Mick's sire Millkom was a top-class turf performer whose wins included the Grand Prix de Paris in 1994 and the Man o' War Stakes in 1995.
[5] Lunar Music, the dam of Milk It Mick, was a sprinter who showed considerable durability, but little talent as she won three insignificant races (worth a grand total of £8.103) from thirty-four starts.
[7] On his racecourse debut Milk It Mick started a 33/1 outsider for a five furlong maiden race at Haydock Park on 19 April and finished fifth of the eighteen runners behind Caldy Dancer.
Three weeks later he started 4/6 favourite for a similar event at Beverley Racecourse and recorded his first success as he gained the advantage inside the final furlong and won by three quarters of a length from Harry Up.
[8] On 1 June Milk It Mick was moved up in distance and started odds-on favourite for a minor race over six furlongs at Windsor Racecourse in which he was ridden as at Beverley by Martin Dwyer.
Carrying top weight of 127 pounds we took the lead from the start and stayed on well in the closing stages to win by one and a quarter lengths from the Richard Hannon, Sr-trained Goblin.
In August he was moved back up to seven furlongs for the Washington Singer Stakes at Newbury in which he was ridden by Kieren Fallon and stayed on in the closing stages to finish third of the eight runners behind Haafhd.
At the end of the month he started at odds of 9/2 in an eight-runner field for the Group Three Sirenia Stakes at Sandown Park Racecourse and finished second, beaten half a length by Barbajuan after staying on in the closing stages.
He was restrained by Quinn before making some progress approaching the final quarter mile but never looked likely to win and finished fifth behind Lucky Story who won from Auditorium and Haafhd.
[13] On his three-year-old debut started favourite for a Listed International Trial on the synthetic Polytrack surface at Lingfield Park Racecourse on 3 April but finished second of the nine runners behind the outsider Leitrim House.
Milk It Mick remained in training with Osborne as a four-year-old but made no impact in two races, finishing unplaced at Chester in June and at Doncaster in October.
He made a very promising start to his North American career in the Grade II San Marcos Stakes over ten furlongs at Santa Anita Park on 22 January.
On 4 March at the same track the horse was dropped back in distance, but stepped up in class for the Grade I Frank E Kilroe Mile Stakes and started at odds of 12.4/1 in a thirteen-runner field.
Milk It Mick overcame an outside draw to take the lead in the final furlong and held off several late challengers to win by a neck and a short head from Aragorn and Chinese Dragon.
[15] In April Milk It Mick started favourite for the Grade II Arcadia Handicap at Santa Anita but was beaten into third place behind Silent Name and Chinese Dragon.