Post Time being pointed to summer return
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Post Time, runner-up in last year’s Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, will soon start breezing at the Fair Hill Training Center for trainer Brittany Russell. The 5-year-old is not being pointed toward any races yet, but he should begin his campaign this summer.
“We’re just letting him come along and when he’s ready, he’ll tell us,” Russell said. “When we get him back on the work tab, we’ll make a plan from there.”
Post Time’s 5-year-old season will be truncated by a late start, but all possibilities are still on the table. He will almost certainly work his way back to graded stakes competition in New York, but Russell used local starts at different points last year to prepare the Maryland-bred runner for bigger races.
As a 4-year-old, Post Time won two stakes at Laurel before shipping to win the Grade 2 Carter at Aqueduct. Later in the season, he returned to Maryland to win the Polynesian, his last start before traveling to Del Mar for the Breeders’ Cup.
With his second in the BC Dirt Mile, Post Time is among the best dirt horses in the country. Laurel is still home in many ways, however. He remains undefeated in seven career starts over the track.
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