LRL: Post Time dominates Polynesian * The Racing Biz

“The plan was not to give Ellen [Charles] and Brittany [Russell] A heart attack. I think I had already given them enough with him here, “said Sheldon Russell after Sunday’s $ 100,000 polynesian deployment in Laurel Park.

You may have reached that mission.

Russell’s Mount, the often-late-to-scene and occasionally heart attack-inducing post-time, trained by Brittany Russell for Ellen Charles’s Hillwood Stable, today left his record to a spotless 10-out-10 on his home job. And he did this with a difficult representation of dominance: no heart attacks required.

After the time, never more than a few lengths back, took the lead with more than a quarter of miles in the Polynesian and was steadily widened from there, so that the timer was stopped in 1: 37.23 for a mile on a muddy, sealed main track. It was 17 lengths back to the number two northern flame and another 14 back to Awesome Ruta, who was third and last.

“I think he will come forward way too early,” Sheldon Russell admitted. “But there is only so much that I can withdraw it.”

Out on 1-20, post the time $ 2.10 to win. With only three horses, no place or show betting was allowed. It was the second consecutive year after the time this event had dominated, and the second time he did this at 1-20.

Roast and light the way the road was scratched.

Last year an easy victory in the Polynesian was the last adjustment of Post Time for the dirt mile of the Breeders’ Cup, in which he was a meeting to the entire Serrano.

There may be no return trip to the Breeders’ Cup this year, however, said Brittany Russell. Post time did not have as strong a season as a year ago, when he won two Graded Stakes and earned nearly a million dollars. This year the five-year-old intact son of Frosted has won three times on his home track, but his two graded stakes outputs have resulted in a third in the degree 3 debt and a sixth in the 1 Whitney grade.

With the victory, the time improved to 12 victories of 20 starts in his career. The winner’s share pushed his bankroll above $ 1.4 million.

Charles, in the circle of the winner, was then happy to think about the journey on which Post Time brought her and the Russells. He is by far the best horse she owns, and given the number of popular and hard runners she has had-including the Graded Stakes winners Cordmaker and Bandbox and the popular local runner Phlash Phelps Dat says something.

“I don’t really cry, but I get the feeling when you think you’re going to cry” watch Time win, Charles said.

“We are having a good time,” she added. “They are all nice people. They are not the kind of type that is always looking for something that has not gone well. You know, everyone loves the animals and understand what is going on.”

Regarding where the journey goes, that must be determined. Although this year’s results have not been as good as those of last year, Sheldon Russell, for example, thinks that there could be a graduate commitment in the future of Post Time.

“I always believe there is a big one,” he said. “You know, it’s up to Brittany. If we are lucky and we put it in the right race, he gives me a feeling that there is something special there.”

He added: “I would like to get a different interest for Ellen. But as Brittany said, the division is tough. We should be smart and we should see him in the right race to get it done.”