Hit the Road, 2021 Kilroe Mile winner, turned out for 'a couple of months'

ARCADIA, Calif. - Hit the Road, the winner of the Grade 1 Frank Kilroe Mile in 2021 and three other stakes, has been turned out at a farm in central California and is not expected to resume racing until the Del Mar summer meeting, trainer Dan Blacker said.

“He’ll get a couple of months,” Blacker said. “It’s nothing major. He needs a freshening now and then.”

Hit the Road, 5, finished eighth in the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Turf at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 29, 3 1/2 lengths behind winner Colonel Liam, in his first start since October.

“He regressed a little in the Pegasus and didn’t run his best race,” Blacker said.

Hit the Road has won 6 of 13 starts and earned $588,751. He was among California’s top turf milers in 2020.

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