diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/MinimumScoreCollector.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/MinimumScoreCollector.java
deleted file mode 100644
index e9c58a78a58..00000000000
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/MinimumScoreCollector.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to Elasticsearch under one or more contributor
- * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright
- * ownership. Elasticsearch licenses this file to you under
- * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
- * not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-
-package org.elasticsearch.common.lucene;
-
-import org.apache.lucene.index.LeafReaderContext;
-import org.apache.lucene.search.*;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-
-/**
- *
- */
-public class MinimumScoreCollector extends SimpleCollector {
-
-    private final Collector collector;
-    private final float minimumScore;
-
-    private Scorer scorer;
-    private LeafCollector leafCollector;
-
-    public MinimumScoreCollector(Collector collector, float minimumScore) {
-        this.collector = collector;
-        this.minimumScore = minimumScore;
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void setScorer(Scorer scorer) throws IOException {
-        if (!(scorer instanceof ScoreCachingWrappingScorer)) {
-            scorer = new ScoreCachingWrappingScorer(scorer);
-        }
-        this.scorer = scorer;
-        leafCollector.setScorer(scorer);
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void collect(int doc) throws IOException {
-        if (scorer.score() >= minimumScore) {
-            leafCollector.collect(doc);
-        }
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public void doSetNextReader(LeafReaderContext context) throws IOException {
-        leafCollector = collector.getLeafCollector(context);
-    }
-
-    @Override
-    public boolean needsScores() {
-        return true;
-    }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/search/MinScoreQuery.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/search/MinScoreQuery.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3ed4987c7e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/search/MinScoreQuery.java
@@ -0,0 +1,285 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch licenses this file to you under
+ * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+ * not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.LeafReaderContext;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.BulkScorer;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.DocIdSetIterator;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.Explanation;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.LeafCollector;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.ScoreCachingWrappingScorer;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.Scorer;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.TwoPhaseIterator;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.Weight;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Objects;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+/**
+ * A {@link Query} wrapper that only emits as hits documents whose score is
+ * above a given threshold. This query only really makes sense for queries
+ * whose score is computed manually, like eg. function score queries.
+ */
+public final class MinScoreQuery extends Query {
+
+    private final Query query;
+    private final float minScore;
+    private final IndexSearcher searcher;
+
+    /** Sole constructor. */
+    public MinScoreQuery(Query query, float minScore) {
+        this(query, minScore, null);
+    }
+
+    MinScoreQuery(Query query, float minScore, IndexSearcher searcher) {
+        this.query = query;
+        this.minScore = minScore;
+        this.searcher = searcher;
+    }
+
+    /** Return the wrapped query. */
+    public Query getQuery() {
+        return query;
+    }
+
+    /** Return the minimum score. */
+    public float getMinScore() {
+        return minScore;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public String toString(String field) {
+        return getClass().getSimpleName() + "(" + query.toString(field) + ", minScore=" + minScore + ")";
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+        if (super.equals(obj) == false) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        MinScoreQuery that = (MinScoreQuery) obj;
+        return minScore == that.minScore
+                && searcher == that.searcher
+                && query.equals(that.query);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public int hashCode() {
+        return 31 * super.hashCode() + Objects.hash(query, minScore, searcher);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Query rewrite(IndexReader reader) throws IOException {
+        if (getBoost() != 1f) {
+            return super.rewrite(reader);
+        }
+        Query rewritten = query.rewrite(reader);
+        if (rewritten != query) {
+            return new MinScoreQuery(rewritten, minScore);
+        }
+        return super.rewrite(reader);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public Weight createWeight(IndexSearcher searcher, boolean needsScores) throws IOException {
+        final Weight weight = searcher.createWeight(query, true);
+        // We specialize the query for the provided index searcher because it
+        // can't really be cached as the documents that match depend on the
+        // Similarity implementation and the top-level reader.
+        final Query key = new MinScoreQuery(query, minScore, searcher);
+        return new Weight(key) {
+
+            @Override
+            public Scorer scorer(LeafReaderContext context) throws IOException {
+                Scorer scorer = weight.scorer(context);
+                if (scorer == null) {
+                    return null;
+                }
+                return new MinScoreScorer(this, scorer, minScore);
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public BulkScorer bulkScorer(LeafReaderContext context) throws IOException {
+                BulkScorer bulkScorer = weight.bulkScorer(context);
+                if (bulkScorer == null) {
+                    return null;
+                }
+                return new MinScoreBulkScorer(bulkScorer, minScore);
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public void normalize(float norm, float boost) {
+                weight.normalize(norm, boost);
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public float getValueForNormalization() throws IOException {
+                return weight.getValueForNormalization();
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public void extractTerms(Set<Term> terms) {
+                weight.extractTerms(terms);
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public Explanation explain(LeafReaderContext context, int doc) throws IOException {
+                Explanation expl = weight.explain(context, doc);
+                if (expl.isMatch() == false || expl.getValue() >= minScore) {
+                    return expl;
+                } else {
+                    return Explanation.noMatch("Min score is less than the configured min score=" + minScore, expl);
+                }
+            }
+        };
+    }
+
+    private static class MinScoreScorer extends Scorer {
+
+        private final Scorer scorer;
+        private final float minScore;
+        private float score;
+
+        protected MinScoreScorer(Weight weight, Scorer scorer, float minScore) {
+            super(weight);
+            this.scorer = scorer;
+            this.minScore = minScore;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public float score() throws IOException {
+            return score;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public int freq() throws IOException {
+            return scorer.freq();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public int docID() {
+            return scorer.docID();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public int nextDoc() throws IOException {
+            return doNext(scorer.nextDoc());
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public int advance(int target) throws IOException {
+            return doNext(scorer.advance(target));
+        }
+
+        private int doNext(int doc) throws IOException {
+            for (; doc != NO_MORE_DOCS; doc = scorer.nextDoc()) {
+                final float score = scorer.score();
+                if (score >= minScore) {
+                    this.score = score;
+                    return doc;
+                }
+            }
+            return NO_MORE_DOCS;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public TwoPhaseIterator asTwoPhaseIterator() {
+            final TwoPhaseIterator twoPhase = scorer.asTwoPhaseIterator();
+            final DocIdSetIterator approximation = twoPhase == null
+                    ? scorer
+                    : twoPhase.approximation();
+            return new TwoPhaseIterator(approximation) {
+                @Override
+                public boolean matches() throws IOException {
+                    if (twoPhase != null && twoPhase.matches() == false) {
+                        return false;
+                    }
+                    score = scorer.score();
+                    return score >= minScore;
+                }
+            };
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public long cost() {
+            return scorer.cost();
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    private static class MinScoreBulkScorer extends BulkScorer {
+
+        private final BulkScorer bulkScorer;
+        private final float minScore;
+
+        public MinScoreBulkScorer(BulkScorer bulkScorer, float minScore) {
+            this.bulkScorer = bulkScorer;
+            this.minScore = minScore;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public int score(LeafCollector collector, Bits acceptDocs, int min, int max) throws IOException {
+            return bulkScorer.score(new MinScoreLeafCollector(collector, minScore), acceptDocs, min, max);
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public long cost() {
+            return bulkScorer.cost();
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    private static class MinScoreLeafCollector implements LeafCollector {
+
+        private final LeafCollector collector;
+        private final float minScore;
+        private Scorer scorer;
+
+        public MinScoreLeafCollector(LeafCollector collector, float minScore) {
+            this.collector = collector;
+            this.minScore = minScore;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void setScorer(Scorer scorer) throws IOException {
+            // we will need scores at least once, maybe more due to the wrapped
+            // collector, so we wrap with a ScoreCachingWrappingScorer
+            if (scorer instanceof ScoreCachingWrappingScorer == false) {
+                scorer = new ScoreCachingWrappingScorer(scorer);
+            }
+            this.scorer = scorer;
+            collector.setScorer(scorer);
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void collect(int doc) throws IOException {
+            if (scorer.score() >= minScore) {
+                collector.collect(doc);
+            }
+        }
+
+    }
+}
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/search/function/CustomBoostFactorScorer.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/search/function/CustomBoostFactorScorer.java
index 709c7df7898..48f93f58715 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/search/function/CustomBoostFactorScorer.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/search/function/CustomBoostFactorScorer.java
@@ -30,21 +30,12 @@ abstract class CustomBoostFactorScorer extends Scorer {
     final float maxBoost;
     final CombineFunction scoreCombiner;
 
-    Float minScore;
-    NextDoc nextDoc;
-
-    CustomBoostFactorScorer(Weight w, Scorer scorer, float maxBoost, CombineFunction scoreCombiner, Float minScore)
+    CustomBoostFactorScorer(Weight w, Scorer scorer, float maxBoost, CombineFunction scoreCombiner)
             throws IOException {
         super(w);
-        if (minScore == null) {
-            nextDoc = new AnyNextDoc();
-        } else {
-            nextDoc = new MinScoreNextDoc();
-        }
         this.scorer = scorer;
         this.maxBoost = maxBoost;
         this.scoreCombiner = scoreCombiner;
-        this.minScore = minScore;
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -54,20 +45,16 @@ abstract class CustomBoostFactorScorer extends Scorer {
 
     @Override
     public int advance(int target) throws IOException {
-        return nextDoc.advance(target);
+        return scorer.advance(target);
     }
 
     @Override
     public int nextDoc() throws IOException {
-        return nextDoc.nextDoc();
+        return scorer.nextDoc();
     }
 
-    public abstract float innerScore() throws IOException;
-
     @Override
-    public float score() throws IOException {
-        return nextDoc.score();
-    }
+    public abstract float score() throws IOException;
 
     @Override
     public int freq() throws IOException {
@@ -79,64 +66,4 @@ abstract class CustomBoostFactorScorer extends Scorer {
         return scorer.cost();
     }
 
-    public interface NextDoc {
-        public int advance(int target) throws IOException;
-
-        public int nextDoc() throws IOException;
-
-        public float score() throws IOException;
-    }
-
-    public class MinScoreNextDoc implements NextDoc {
-        float currentScore = Float.MAX_VALUE * -1.0f;
-
-        @Override
-        public int nextDoc() throws IOException {
-            int doc;
-            do {
-                doc = scorer.nextDoc();
-                if (doc == NO_MORE_DOCS) {
-                    return doc;
-                }
-                currentScore = innerScore();
-            } while (currentScore < minScore);
-            return doc;
-        }
-
-        @Override
-        public float score() throws IOException {
-            return currentScore;
-        }
-
-        @Override
-        public int advance(int target) throws IOException {
-            int doc = scorer.advance(target);
-            if (doc == NO_MORE_DOCS) {
-                return doc;
-            }
-            currentScore = innerScore();
-            if (currentScore < minScore) {
-                return scorer.nextDoc();
-            }
-            return doc;
-        }
-    }
-
-    public class AnyNextDoc implements NextDoc {
-
-        @Override
-        public int nextDoc() throws IOException {
-            return scorer.nextDoc();
-        }
-
-        @Override
-        public float score() throws IOException {
-            return innerScore();
-        }
-
-        @Override
-        public int advance(int target) throws IOException {
-            return scorer.advance(target);
-        }
-    }
 }
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/search/function/FiltersFunctionScoreQuery.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/search/function/FiltersFunctionScoreQuery.java
index 210b32d5e42..4a759dd31de 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/search/function/FiltersFunctionScoreQuery.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/search/function/FiltersFunctionScoreQuery.java
@@ -100,17 +100,15 @@ public class FiltersFunctionScoreQuery extends Query {
     final FilterFunction[] filterFunctions;
     final ScoreMode scoreMode;
     final float maxBoost;
-    private final Float minScore;
 
     final protected CombineFunction combineFunction;
 
-    public FiltersFunctionScoreQuery(Query subQuery, ScoreMode scoreMode, FilterFunction[] filterFunctions, float maxBoost, Float minScore, CombineFunction combineFunction) {
+    public FiltersFunctionScoreQuery(Query subQuery, ScoreMode scoreMode, FilterFunction[] filterFunctions, float maxBoost, CombineFunction combineFunction) {
         this.subQuery = subQuery;
         this.scoreMode = scoreMode;
         this.filterFunctions = filterFunctions;
         this.maxBoost = maxBoost;
         this.combineFunction = combineFunction;
-        this.minScore = minScore;
     }
 
     public Query getSubQuery() {
@@ -195,7 +193,7 @@ public class FiltersFunctionScoreQuery extends Query {
                 Scorer filterScorer = filterWeights[i].scorer(context);
                 docSets[i] = Lucene.asSequentialAccessBits(context.reader().maxDoc(), filterScorer);
             }
-            return new FiltersFunctionFactorScorer(this, subQueryScorer, scoreMode, filterFunctions, maxBoost, functions, docSets, combineFunction, minScore, needsScores);
+            return new FiltersFunctionFactorScorer(this, subQueryScorer, scoreMode, filterFunctions, maxBoost, functions, docSets, combineFunction, needsScores);
         }
 
         @Override
@@ -244,8 +242,8 @@ public class FiltersFunctionScoreQuery extends Query {
         private final boolean needsScores;
 
         private FiltersFunctionFactorScorer(CustomBoostFactorWeight w, Scorer scorer, ScoreMode scoreMode, FilterFunction[] filterFunctions,
-                                            float maxBoost, LeafScoreFunction[] functions, Bits[] docSets, CombineFunction scoreCombiner, Float minScore, boolean needsScores) throws IOException {
-            super(w, scorer, maxBoost, scoreCombiner, minScore);
+                                            float maxBoost, LeafScoreFunction[] functions, Bits[] docSets, CombineFunction scoreCombiner, boolean needsScores) throws IOException {
+            super(w, scorer, maxBoost, scoreCombiner);
             this.scoreMode = scoreMode;
             this.filterFunctions = filterFunctions;
             this.functions = functions;
@@ -254,7 +252,7 @@ public class FiltersFunctionScoreQuery extends Query {
         }
 
         @Override
-        public float innerScore() throws IOException {
+        public float score() throws IOException {
             int docId = scorer.docID();
             // Even if the weight is created with needsScores=false, it might
             // be costly to call score(), so we explicitly check if scores
@@ -351,12 +349,12 @@ public class FiltersFunctionScoreQuery extends Query {
         }
         FiltersFunctionScoreQuery other = (FiltersFunctionScoreQuery) o;
         return Objects.equals(this.subQuery, other.subQuery) && this.maxBoost == other.maxBoost &&
-                Objects.equals(this.combineFunction, other.combineFunction) && Objects.equals(this.minScore, other.minScore) &&
+                Objects.equals(this.combineFunction, other.combineFunction) &&
                 Arrays.equals(this.filterFunctions, other.filterFunctions);
     }
 
     @Override
     public int hashCode() {
-        return Objects.hash(super.hashCode(), subQuery, maxBoost, combineFunction, minScore, filterFunctions);
+        return Objects.hash(super.hashCode(), subQuery, maxBoost, combineFunction, filterFunctions);
     }
 }
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/search/function/FunctionScoreQuery.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/search/function/FunctionScoreQuery.java
index 907d66957ac..6e15ff581bc 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/search/function/FunctionScoreQuery.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/search/function/FunctionScoreQuery.java
@@ -40,13 +40,11 @@ public class FunctionScoreQuery extends Query {
     final ScoreFunction function;
     final float maxBoost;
     final CombineFunction combineFunction;
-    private Float minScore;
 
-    public FunctionScoreQuery(Query subQuery, ScoreFunction function, Float minScore, CombineFunction combineFunction, float maxBoost) {
+    public FunctionScoreQuery(Query subQuery, ScoreFunction function, CombineFunction combineFunction, float maxBoost) {
         this.subQuery = subQuery;
         this.function = function;
         this.combineFunction = combineFunction;
-        this.minScore = minScore;
         this.maxBoost = maxBoost;
     }
 
@@ -133,7 +131,7 @@ public class FunctionScoreQuery extends Query {
             if (function != null) {
                 leafFunction = function.getLeafScoreFunction(context);
             }
-            return new FunctionFactorScorer(this, subQueryScorer, leafFunction, maxBoost, combineFunction, minScore, needsScores);
+            return new FunctionFactorScorer(this, subQueryScorer, leafFunction, maxBoost, combineFunction, needsScores);
         }
 
         @Override
@@ -156,15 +154,15 @@ public class FunctionScoreQuery extends Query {
         private final LeafScoreFunction function;
         private final boolean needsScores;
 
-        private FunctionFactorScorer(CustomBoostFactorWeight w, Scorer scorer, LeafScoreFunction function, float maxBoost, CombineFunction scoreCombiner, Float minScore, boolean needsScores)
+        private FunctionFactorScorer(CustomBoostFactorWeight w, Scorer scorer, LeafScoreFunction function, float maxBoost, CombineFunction scoreCombiner, boolean needsScores)
                 throws IOException {
-            super(w, scorer, maxBoost, scoreCombiner, minScore);
+            super(w, scorer, maxBoost, scoreCombiner);
             this.function = function;
             this.needsScores = needsScores;
         }
 
         @Override
-        public float innerScore() throws IOException {
+        public float score() throws IOException {
             // Even if the weight is created with needsScores=false, it might
             // be costly to call score(), so we explicitly check if scores
             // are needed
@@ -197,11 +195,11 @@ public class FunctionScoreQuery extends Query {
         FunctionScoreQuery other = (FunctionScoreQuery) o;
         return Objects.equals(this.subQuery, other.subQuery) && Objects.equals(this.function, other.function)
                 && Objects.equals(this.combineFunction, other.combineFunction)
-                && Objects.equals(this.minScore, other.minScore) && this.maxBoost == other.maxBoost;
+                && this.maxBoost == other.maxBoost;
     }
 
     @Override
     public int hashCode() {
-        return Objects.hash(super.hashCode(), subQuery.hashCode(), function, combineFunction, minScore, maxBoost);
+        return Objects.hash(super.hashCode(), subQuery.hashCode(), function, combineFunction, maxBoost);
     }
 }
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/functionscore/FunctionScoreQueryBuilder.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/functionscore/FunctionScoreQueryBuilder.java
index d5c260f9616..b5978943c29 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/functionscore/FunctionScoreQueryBuilder.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/functionscore/FunctionScoreQueryBuilder.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamInput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.StreamOutput;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.Writeable;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.MinScoreQuery;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.CombineFunction;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.FiltersFunctionScoreQuery;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.FunctionScoreQuery;
@@ -312,10 +313,17 @@ public class FunctionScoreQueryBuilder extends AbstractQueryBuilder<FunctionScor
                     combineFunction = DEFAULT_BOOST_MODE;
                 }
             }
-            return new FunctionScoreQuery(query, function, minScore, combineFunction, maxBoost);
+            query = new FunctionScoreQuery(query, function, combineFunction, maxBoost);
+        } else {
+            // in all other cases we create a FiltersFunctionScoreQuery
+            query = new FiltersFunctionScoreQuery(query, scoreMode, filterFunctions, maxBoost, boostMode == null ? DEFAULT_BOOST_MODE : boostMode);
         }
-        // in all other cases we create a FiltersFunctionScoreQuery
-        return new FiltersFunctionScoreQuery(query, scoreMode, filterFunctions, maxBoost, minScore, boostMode == null ? DEFAULT_BOOST_MODE : boostMode);
+
+        if (minScore != null) {
+            query = new MinScoreQuery(query, minScore);
+        }
+
+        return query;
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/percolator/PercolateContext.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/percolator/PercolateContext.java
index 8cb797cdce0..440cbc2cc5d 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/percolator/PercolateContext.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/percolator/PercolateContext.java
@@ -478,11 +478,6 @@ public class PercolateContext extends SearchContext {
         throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
     }
 
-    @Override
-    public Float minimumScore() {
-        return null;
-    }
-
     @Override
     public SearchContext sort(Sort sort) {
         this.sort = sort;
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/DefaultSearchContext.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/DefaultSearchContext.java
index 1f6f05fea5e..8363a7f6ce7 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/DefaultSearchContext.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/DefaultSearchContext.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import org.elasticsearch.cache.recycler.PageCacheRecycler;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Nullable;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.ParseFieldMatcher;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.lease.Releasables;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.MinScoreQuery;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.Queries;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.FunctionScoreQuery;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.WeightFactorFunction;
@@ -215,6 +216,9 @@ public class DefaultSearchContext extends SearchContext {
                 parsedQuery(new ParsedQuery(filtered, parsedQuery()));
             }
         }
+        if (minimumScore != null) {
+            this.query = new MinScoreQuery(query, minimumScore);
+        }
         try {
             this.query = searcher().rewrite(this.query);
         } catch (IOException e) {
@@ -491,11 +495,6 @@ public class DefaultSearchContext extends SearchContext {
         return this;
     }
 
-    @Override
-    public Float minimumScore() {
-        return this.minimumScore;
-    }
-
     @Override
     public SearchContext sort(Sort sort) {
         this.sort = sort;
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/FilteredSearchContext.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/FilteredSearchContext.java
index 5687e9eeb10..1aa2d38d48c 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/FilteredSearchContext.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/FilteredSearchContext.java
@@ -317,11 +317,6 @@ public abstract class FilteredSearchContext extends SearchContext {
         return in.minimumScore(minimumScore);
     }
 
-    @Override
-    public Float minimumScore() {
-        return in.minimumScore();
-    }
-
     @Override
     public SearchContext sort(Sort sort) {
         return in.sort(sort);
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/SearchContext.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/SearchContext.java
index e632241d8df..80a5ab6a9e9 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/SearchContext.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/internal/SearchContext.java
@@ -230,8 +230,6 @@ public abstract class SearchContext extends DelegatingHasContextAndHeaders imple
 
     public abstract SearchContext minimumScore(float minimumScore);
 
-    public abstract Float minimumScore();
-
     public abstract SearchContext sort(Sort sort);
 
     public abstract Sort sort();
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/query/QueryPhase.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/query/QueryPhase.java
index c4aa23fc2a6..cf10b5c77bd 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/query/QueryPhase.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/search/query/QueryPhase.java
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ import org.apache.lucene.search.Weight;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchType;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.inject.Inject;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.Lucene;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.MinimumScoreCollector;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.FilteredCollector;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.SearchParseElement;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.SearchPhase;
@@ -277,11 +276,6 @@ public class QueryPhase implements SearchPhase {
             allCollectors.addAll(searchContext.queryCollectors().values());
             collector = MultiCollector.wrap(allCollectors);
 
-            // apply the minimum score after multi collector so we filter aggs as well
-            if (searchContext.minimumScore() != null) {
-                collector = new MinimumScoreCollector(collector, searchContext.minimumScore());
-            }
-
             if (collector.getClass() == TotalHitCountCollector.class) {
                 // Optimize counts in simple cases to return in constant time
                 // instead of using a collector
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/search/MinScoreQueryTests.java b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/search/MinScoreQueryTests.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b975037968e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/common/lucene/search/MinScoreQueryTests.java
@@ -0,0 +1,195 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch licenses this file to you under
+ * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+ * not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer;
+import org.apache.lucene.analysis.MockAnalyzer;
+import org.apache.lucene.analysis.MockTokenizer;
+import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
+import org.apache.lucene.document.Field.Store;
+import org.apache.lucene.document.TextField;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.MultiReader;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.RandomIndexWriter;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanClause.Occur;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.*;
+import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.IOUtils;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.TestUtil;
+import org.elasticsearch.test.ESTestCase;
+import org.junit.AfterClass;
+import org.junit.BeforeClass;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+public class MinScoreQueryTests extends ESTestCase {
+
+    private static String[] terms;
+    private static Directory dir;
+    private static IndexReader r;
+    private static IndexSearcher s;
+
+    @BeforeClass
+    public static void before() throws IOException {
+        dir = newDirectory();
+        terms = new String[TestUtil.nextInt(random(), 2, 15)];
+        for (int i = 0; i < terms.length; ++i) {
+            terms[i] = TestUtil.randomSimpleString(random());
+        }
+        final int numDocs = TestUtil.nextInt(random(), 1, 200);
+        Analyzer analyzer = new MockAnalyzer(random(), MockTokenizer.WHITESPACE, false);
+        RandomIndexWriter w = new RandomIndexWriter(random(), dir, newIndexWriterConfig(analyzer));
+        for (int i = 0; i < numDocs; ++i) {
+            StringBuilder value = new StringBuilder();
+            final int numTerms = random().nextInt(10);
+            for (int j = 0; j < numTerms; ++j) {
+                if (j > 0) {
+                    value.append(' ');
+                }
+                // simulate zipf distribution
+                String term = terms[TestUtil.nextInt(random(), 0, TestUtil.nextInt(random(), 0, terms.length - 1))];
+                value.append(term);
+            }
+            Document doc = new Document();
+            doc.add(new TextField("field", value.toString(), Store.NO));
+            w.addDocument(doc);
+        }
+        r = w.getReader();
+        s = newSearcher(r);
+        w.close();
+    }
+
+    @AfterClass
+    public static void after() throws IOException {
+        IOUtils.close(r, dir);
+        terms = null;
+        r = null;
+        s = null;
+        dir = null;
+    }
+
+    private static Term randomTerm() {
+        return new Term("field", terms[random().nextInt(terms.length)]);
+    }
+
+    public void testEquals() throws IOException {
+        QueryUtils.checkEqual(new MinScoreQuery(new MatchAllDocsQuery(), 0.5f), new MinScoreQuery(new MatchAllDocsQuery(), 0.5f));
+        QueryUtils.checkUnequal(new MinScoreQuery(new MatchAllDocsQuery(), 0.5f), new MinScoreQuery(new MatchAllDocsQuery(), 0.3f));
+        QueryUtils.checkUnequal(new MinScoreQuery(new MatchAllDocsQuery(), 0.5f), new MinScoreQuery(new MatchNoDocsQuery(), 0.5f));
+
+        IndexSearcher s1 = new IndexSearcher(new MultiReader());
+        IndexSearcher s2 = new IndexSearcher(new MultiReader());
+        QueryUtils.checkEqual(new MinScoreQuery(new MatchAllDocsQuery(), 0.5f, s1), new MinScoreQuery(new MatchAllDocsQuery(), 0.5f, s1));
+        QueryUtils.checkUnequal(new MinScoreQuery(new MatchAllDocsQuery(), 0.5f, s1), new MinScoreQuery(new MatchAllDocsQuery(), 0.5f, s2));
+    }
+
+    /** pick a min score which is in the range of scores produced by the query */
+    private float randomMinScore(Query query) throws IOException {
+        TopDocs topDocs = s.search(query, 2);
+        float base = 0;
+        switch (topDocs.totalHits) {
+        case 0:
+            break;
+        case 1:
+            base = topDocs.scoreDocs[0].score;
+            break;
+        default:
+            base = (topDocs.scoreDocs[0].score + topDocs.scoreDocs[1].score) / 2;
+            break;
+        }
+        float delta = random().nextFloat() - 0.5f;
+        return base + delta;
+    }
+
+    private void assertMinScoreEquivalence(Query query, Query minScoreQuery, float minScore) throws IOException {
+        final TopDocs topDocs = s.search(query, s.getIndexReader().maxDoc());
+        final TopDocs minScoreTopDocs = s.search(minScoreQuery, s.getIndexReader().maxDoc());
+
+        int j = 0;
+        for (int i = 0; i < topDocs.totalHits; ++i) {
+            if (topDocs.scoreDocs[i].score >= minScore) {
+                assertEquals(topDocs.scoreDocs[i].doc, minScoreTopDocs.scoreDocs[j].doc);
+                assertEquals(topDocs.scoreDocs[i].score, minScoreTopDocs.scoreDocs[j].score, 1e-5f);
+                j++;
+            }
+        }
+        assertEquals(minScoreTopDocs.totalHits, j);
+    }
+
+    public void testBasics() throws Exception {
+        final int iters = 5;
+        for (int iter = 0; iter < iters; ++iter) {
+            Term term = randomTerm();
+            Query query = new TermQuery(term);
+            float minScore = randomMinScore(query);
+            Query minScoreQuery = new MinScoreQuery(query, minScore);
+            assertMinScoreEquivalence(query, minScoreQuery, minScore);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void testFilteredApproxQuery() throws Exception {
+        // same as testBasics but with a query that exposes approximations
+        final int iters = 5;
+        for (int iter = 0; iter < iters; ++iter) {
+            Term term = randomTerm();
+            Query query = new TermQuery(term);
+            float minScore = randomMinScore(query);
+            Query minScoreQuery = new MinScoreQuery(new RandomApproximationQuery(query, random()), minScore);
+            assertMinScoreEquivalence(query, minScoreQuery, minScore);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void testNestedInConjunction() throws Exception {
+        // To test scorers as well, not only bulk scorers
+        Term t1 = randomTerm();
+        Term t2 = randomTerm();
+        Query tq1 = new TermQuery(t1);
+        Query tq2 = new TermQuery(t2);
+        float minScore = randomMinScore(tq1);
+        BooleanQuery bq1 = new BooleanQuery.Builder()
+            .add(new MinScoreQuery(tq1, minScore), Occur.MUST)
+            .add(tq2, Occur.FILTER)
+            .build();
+        BooleanQuery bq2 = new BooleanQuery.Builder()
+            .add(tq1, Occur.MUST)
+            .add(tq2, Occur.FILTER)
+            .build();
+        assertMinScoreEquivalence(bq2, bq1, minScore);
+    }
+
+    public void testNestedInConjunctionWithApprox() throws Exception {
+        // same, but with approximations
+        Term t1 = randomTerm();
+        Term t2 = randomTerm();
+        Query tq1 = new TermQuery(t1);
+        Query tq2 = new TermQuery(t2);
+        float minScore = randomMinScore(tq1);
+        BooleanQuery bq1 = new BooleanQuery.Builder()
+            .add(new MinScoreQuery(new RandomApproximationQuery(tq1, random()), minScore), Occur.MUST)
+            .add(tq2, Occur.FILTER)
+            .build();
+        BooleanQuery bq2 = new BooleanQuery.Builder()
+            .add(tq1, Occur.MUST)
+            .add(tq2, Occur.FILTER)
+            .build();
+        assertMinScoreEquivalence(bq2, bq1, minScore);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/functionscore/FunctionScoreQueryBuilderTests.java b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/functionscore/FunctionScoreQueryBuilderTests.java
index 69aeb824d4e..0b79ea66b1f 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/functionscore/FunctionScoreQueryBuilderTests.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/functionscore/FunctionScoreQueryBuilderTests.java
@@ -26,11 +26,8 @@ import org.apache.lucene.search.MatchAllDocsQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.TermQuery;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.ParsingException;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.CombineFunction;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.FieldValueFactorFunction;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.FiltersFunctionScoreQuery;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.FunctionScoreQuery;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.WeightFactorFunction;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.MinScoreQuery;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.*;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentType;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.query.AbstractQueryBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.query.AbstractQueryTestCase;
@@ -182,6 +179,12 @@ public class FunctionScoreQueryBuilderTests extends AbstractQueryTestCase<Functi
 
     @Override
     protected void doAssertLuceneQuery(FunctionScoreQueryBuilder queryBuilder, Query query, QueryShardContext context) throws IOException {
+        if (queryBuilder.getMinScore() != null) {
+            assertThat(query, instanceOf(MinScoreQuery.class));
+            MinScoreQuery msq = (MinScoreQuery) query;
+            assertEquals(queryBuilder.getMinScore(), msq.getMinScore(), 0f);
+            query = msq.getQuery();
+        }
         assertThat(query, either(instanceOf(FunctionScoreQuery.class)).or(instanceOf(FiltersFunctionScoreQuery.class)));
     }
 
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/functionscore/FunctionScoreTests.java b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/functionscore/FunctionScoreTests.java
index 21667e9ffbe..0405a35d9c0 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/functionscore/FunctionScoreTests.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/functionscore/FunctionScoreTests.java
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
 import org.apache.lucene.document.Field;
 import org.apache.lucene.document.TextField;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.DirectoryReader;
-import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.LeafReaderContext;
 import org.apache.lucene.index.SortedNumericDocValues;
@@ -32,6 +31,7 @@ import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.Explanation;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.MatchAllDocsQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.TermQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.TopDocs;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.Weight;
@@ -39,14 +39,8 @@ import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.Accountable;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Nullable;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.CombineFunction;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.FieldValueFactorFunction;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.FiltersFunctionScoreQuery;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.FunctionScoreQuery;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.LeafScoreFunction;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.RandomScoreFunction;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.ScoreFunction;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.WeightFactorFunction;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.MinScoreQuery;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.function.*;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.Index;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.fielddata.AtomicFieldData;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.fielddata.AtomicNumericFieldData;
@@ -318,7 +312,7 @@ public class FunctionScoreTests extends ESTestCase {
     }
 
     public Explanation getFunctionScoreExplanation(IndexSearcher searcher, ScoreFunction scoreFunction) throws IOException {
-        FunctionScoreQuery functionScoreQuery = new FunctionScoreQuery(new TermQuery(TERM), scoreFunction, 0.0f, CombineFunction.AVG, 100);
+        Query functionScoreQuery = new MinScoreQuery(new FunctionScoreQuery(new TermQuery(TERM), scoreFunction, CombineFunction.AVG, 100), 0f);
         Weight weight = searcher.createNormalizedWeight(functionScoreQuery, true);
         Explanation explanation = weight.explain(searcher.getIndexReader().leaves().get(0), 0);
         return explanation.getDetails()[1];
@@ -382,22 +376,22 @@ public class FunctionScoreTests extends ESTestCase {
     }
 
     public Explanation getFiltersFunctionScoreExplanation(IndexSearcher searcher, ScoreFunction... scoreFunctions) throws IOException {
-        FiltersFunctionScoreQuery filtersFunctionScoreQuery = getFiltersFunctionScoreQuery(FiltersFunctionScoreQuery.ScoreMode.AVG, CombineFunction.AVG, scoreFunctions);
+        Query filtersFunctionScoreQuery = getFiltersFunctionScoreQuery(FiltersFunctionScoreQuery.ScoreMode.AVG, CombineFunction.AVG, scoreFunctions);
         return getExplanation(searcher, filtersFunctionScoreQuery).getDetails()[1];
     }
 
-    protected Explanation getExplanation(IndexSearcher searcher, FiltersFunctionScoreQuery filtersFunctionScoreQuery) throws IOException {
+    protected Explanation getExplanation(IndexSearcher searcher, Query filtersFunctionScoreQuery) throws IOException {
         Weight weight = searcher.createNormalizedWeight(filtersFunctionScoreQuery, true);
         return weight.explain(searcher.getIndexReader().leaves().get(0), 0);
     }
 
-    public FiltersFunctionScoreQuery getFiltersFunctionScoreQuery(FiltersFunctionScoreQuery.ScoreMode scoreMode, CombineFunction combineFunction, ScoreFunction... scoreFunctions) {
+    public Query getFiltersFunctionScoreQuery(FiltersFunctionScoreQuery.ScoreMode scoreMode, CombineFunction combineFunction, ScoreFunction... scoreFunctions) {
         FiltersFunctionScoreQuery.FilterFunction[] filterFunctions = new FiltersFunctionScoreQuery.FilterFunction[scoreFunctions.length];
         for (int i = 0; i < scoreFunctions.length; i++) {
             filterFunctions[i] = new FiltersFunctionScoreQuery.FilterFunction(
                     new TermQuery(TERM), scoreFunctions[i]);
         }
-        return new FiltersFunctionScoreQuery(new TermQuery(TERM), scoreMode, filterFunctions, Float.MAX_VALUE, Float.MAX_VALUE * -1, combineFunction);
+        return new MinScoreQuery(new FiltersFunctionScoreQuery(new TermQuery(TERM), scoreMode, filterFunctions, Float.MAX_VALUE, combineFunction), Float.MAX_VALUE * -1);
     }
 
     public void checkFiltersFunctionScoreExplanation(Explanation randomExplanation, String functionExpl, int whichFunction) {
@@ -471,7 +465,7 @@ public class FunctionScoreTests extends ESTestCase {
             weightFunctionStubs[i] = new WeightFactorFunction(weights[i], scoreFunctionStubs[i]);
         }
 
-        FiltersFunctionScoreQuery filtersFunctionScoreQueryWithWeights = getFiltersFunctionScoreQuery(
+        Query filtersFunctionScoreQueryWithWeights = getFiltersFunctionScoreQuery(
                 FiltersFunctionScoreQuery.ScoreMode.MULTIPLY
                 , CombineFunction.REPLACE
                 , weightFunctionStubs
@@ -554,10 +548,10 @@ public class FunctionScoreTests extends ESTestCase {
         assertThat(explainedScore / scoreWithWeight, is(1f));
     }
 
-    public void testWeightOnlyCreatesBoostFunction() throws IOException {
-        FunctionScoreQuery filtersFunctionScoreQueryWithWeights = new FunctionScoreQuery(new MatchAllDocsQuery(), new WeightFactorFunction(2), 0.0f, CombineFunction.MULTIPLY, 100);
+    public void checkWeightOnlyCreatesBoostFunction() throws IOException {
+        Query filtersFunctionScoreQueryWithWeights = new MinScoreQuery(new FunctionScoreQuery(new MatchAllDocsQuery(), new WeightFactorFunction(2), CombineFunction.MULTIPLY, 100), 0f);
         TopDocs topDocsWithWeights = searcher.search(filtersFunctionScoreQueryWithWeights, 1);
         float score = topDocsWithWeights.scoreDocs[0].score;
         assertThat(score, equalTo(2.0f));
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/search/query/QueryPhaseTests.java b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/search/query/QueryPhaseTests.java
index 098825a90b1..118b4fef544 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/search/query/QueryPhaseTests.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/search/query/QueryPhaseTests.java
@@ -143,10 +143,6 @@ public class QueryPhaseTests extends ESTestCase {
     }
 
     public void testMinScoreDisablesCountOptimization() throws Exception {
-        TestSearchContext context = new TestSearchContext();
-        context.parsedQuery(new ParsedQuery(new MatchAllDocsQuery()));
-        context.setSize(0);
-
         final AtomicBoolean collected = new AtomicBoolean();
         IndexSearcher contextSearcher = new IndexSearcher(new MultiReader()) {
             protected void search(List<LeafReaderContext> leaves, Weight weight, Collector collector) throws IOException {
@@ -155,11 +151,19 @@ public class QueryPhaseTests extends ESTestCase {
             }
         };
 
+        TestSearchContext context = new TestSearchContext();
+        context.parsedQuery(new ParsedQuery(new MatchAllDocsQuery()));
+        context.setSize(0);
+        context.preProcess();
         QueryPhase.execute(context, contextSearcher);
         assertEquals(0, context.queryResult().topDocs().totalHits);
         assertFalse(collected.get());
 
+        context = new TestSearchContext();
+        context.parsedQuery(new ParsedQuery(new MatchAllDocsQuery()));
+        context.setSize(0);
         context.minimumScore(1);
+        context.preProcess();
         QueryPhase.execute(context, contextSearcher);
         assertEquals(0, context.queryResult().topDocs().totalHits);
         assertTrue(collected.get());
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/test/TestSearchContext.java b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/test/TestSearchContext.java
index dd3d2d6c870..75812c4bc9a 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/test/TestSearchContext.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/test/TestSearchContext.java
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import org.elasticsearch.common.HasContextAndHeaders;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.HasHeaders;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.ParseFieldMatcher;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.collect.ImmutableOpenMap;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.search.MinScoreQuery;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.util.BigArrays;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.IndexService;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.analysis.AnalysisService;
@@ -129,6 +130,9 @@ public class TestSearchContext extends SearchContext {
 
     @Override
     public void preProcess() {
+        if (minScore != null) {
+            this.query = new MinScoreQuery(query, minScore);
+        }
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -375,11 +379,6 @@ public class TestSearchContext extends SearchContext {
         return this;
     }
 
-    @Override
-    public Float minimumScore() {
-        return minScore;
-    }
-
     @Override
     public SearchContext sort(Sort sort) {
         return null;