Every part stays on track for Hillwood Secure’s Maryland-bred and -based a number of graded stakes winner Publish Time following his last native exercise Oct. 19 forward of a scheduled begin within the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dust Mile (G1) Nov. 2 at Del Mar.
With assistant coach and train rider Emma Wolfe aboard, Publish Time went 4 furlongs in :49 3/5 over the principle observe on the Honest Hill Coaching Middle in Elkton, Md., rating eighth-fastest of 34 horses.
It was the third work for the 4-year-old Publish Time since his dominant 11 1/2-length victory within the one-mile Polynesian Sept. 14 at Laurel Park, the place coach Brittany Russell is predicated.
“He went good. He went a half-mile in :49 and alter and did it very nicely,” Russell mentioned. “It has been quiet and good, and that is what we’re on the lookout for. Daily, all the pieces goes the way in which we’d like it to.”
Maryland’s champion 2-year-old male of 2022, Publish Time received his first profession stakes that fall within the Maryland Juvenile Stakes and earned his first graded stakes triumph within the Feb. 17 Common George Stakes (G3), each sprinting seven furlongs at Laurel, following up with a victory within the April 6 Carter Stakes (G2) at Aqueduct Racetrack.
By no means worse than third in 13 begins, 9 of them wins, Publish Time ran second within the Westchester Stakes (G3) and Metropolitan Handicap (G1) and third within the 1 1/8-mile Whitney Stakes (G1) Aug. 3 at Saratoga Race Course, his two-turn debut. One-mile races are performed round two turns at Del Mar.
“We’re all simply actually targeted proper now. We’re making an attempt to maintain all the pieces going and take it daily,” Russell mentioned. “There’s quite a lot of issues that should be taken care of, as a result of we’re leaving for a pair days. All people’s actually targeted, everyone’s good. Clearly, we’re all actually excited. We’re wanting ahead to it.”
Brittany Russell
Accompanied by Wolfe, Publish Time is scheduled to depart for California from Newark, N.J., Oct. 23. The remainder of the crew together with Hillwood’s Ellen Charles, Russell and her husband, jockey Sheldon Russell who will experience within the Dust Mile, are scheduled to hitch them Oct. 30.
“Emma’s going to journey with him and she or he can be on the market with him,” Russell mentioned. “He will fly center of the week, so he’ll get a skip over the racetrack. Emma will breeze him like a solo half and let him gallop out. The principle work is finished now. It will simply be some upkeep the week earlier than, let him really feel the observe and all that.”
After racing thrice at each 2 and three, Publish Time has run seven occasions this yr beginning with a season-opening 6 1/2-length victory within the one-mile Jennings Stakes towards Maryland-bred/sired horses Jan. 28 at Laurel. He sits lower than $3,000 away from turning into a millionaire, with $997,910 in purse earnings.
Publish Time could be the second millionaire for Charles, following retired grade 3 winner Cordmaker ($1,004,380), and the primary for Russell. He has already surpassed her earlier top-earning horse, retired filly Hey Lovely, who was bred by Charles.
“So long as he is wholesome, he is the form of horse that thrives on racing,” Russell mentioned. “We’re all fortunate to be in Publish Time’s world, actually.”
This press launch has been edited for content material and magnificence by BloodHorse Workers.
