Post Time will begin stallion career at Northfield in Maryland
Multiple graded-stakes-winning Maryland-bred Post Time will stand his first season at Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City, Md., in 2026 for $4,000 live foal, the farm announced Thursday.
A son of Frosted out of Fairbanks mare Vielsalm and an earner of nearly $1.5 million, Post Time was campaigned by Ellen Charles’s Hillwood Stable and trained by Brittany Russell.
A stakes winner every year from 2 to 5, Post Time compiled a career highlighted by victories in the 2024 Carter (G2) and 2024 General George Stakes (G3) and back-to-back runnings of the Polynesian Stakes by a combined 28 1/2 lengths. He had Grade 1 placings in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, Met Mile (G1) and Whitney (G1) and top-three finishes in 21 of his 22 starts, 17 coming in stakes company. His at Laurel Park was 11: 10-1-0.
“Post Time is a true throwback racehorse,” Russell said. “He was immensely talented from the start, but what made him special was his durability and will to compete. As precocious as he was at 2, he just kept getting better, each year stronger, tougher, and more professional. He faced top-class competition in graded stakes and even the Breeders’ Cup yet always showed up. He’s the kind of horse every trainer dreams of. Sound, genuine and full of personality.”
Bred in Maryland by Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Bowman, Dr. Brooke Bowman and Milton Higgins, Post Time descends from a female family with stakes performers. His dam Vielsalm was a stakes winner and graded-stakes-placed earner of more than $300,000.
“Post Time represents everything we look for in a stallion prospect,” said David Wade, general manager of Northview. “He’s sound, fast, correct and from a family of solid runners. On the track he broke his maiden going 5 1/2 furlongs at 2 and went on to win eight of his first nine starts. He didn’t dodge any horses, ran a very impressive second in the Breeders Cup Dirt Mile and won stakes up to 1 1/8 miles. I always judge a horse by who they beat, and he has finished ahead Domestic Product, White Abarrio, National Treasure, Muth and Seize the Grey to name a few. We’re thrilled to keep him in Maryland and offer him at a fee that presents incredible value to our clients.”
Owner Ellen Charles added, “Post Time was a joy to own from the start, a beautiful, kind horse with immense talent. To see him come home to Maryland and stand at Northview where so many great stallions have launched their careers is tremendously gratifying. I hope Maryland breeders will support him the way he supported us every time he ran.”