Multiple grade 1-placed, grade 2 winner Post Time will stand his first season at Northview Stallion Station near Chesapeake City, Md., the farm announced Oct. 23. He will stand for an advertised fee of $4,000 with a live foal stands and nurses guarantee.
A 5-year-old Maryland-bred son of Frosted who earned nearly $1.5 million, Post Time was campaigned by Ellen Charles' Hillwood Stable and trained by Brittany Russell. A stakes winner every year from 2 to 5, Post Time improved with maturity as shown by his four stakes wins at 4 that included his first graded stakes victories in the Carter Handicap (G2) and General George Stakes (G3), and a runner-up effort in the 2024 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1). His career also included winning back-to-back editions of the 2024-25 Polynesian Stakes by a combined 28 1/2 lengths, and garnering top-level placings in the Metropolitan Handicap (G1) and Whitney Stakes (G1), both in 2024.
He compiled an overall record of 12-4-5 out of 22 starts and won or placed in 17 black-type stakes. Post Time's record at Laurel Park was 10 wins and a second out of 11 starts. His lone defeat there came in his last start when he competed in the Maryland Million Classic.
"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."
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Bowman, Dr. Brooke Bowman, and Milton P. Higgins III bred Post Time out of the graded-placed stakes winner Vielsalm, by Fairbanks, who is a full sister to stakes-placed winner Open the Bank and a half sister to multiple stakes-placed winner Fujita (Lion Hearted). The immediate family also produced grade 1 winners Rose's Cantina, Fancy Naskra, and Montreal Red.
"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 of 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."
Charles said it was gratifying to see her stakes winner begin his stud career in her home state.
"Post Time was a joy to own from the start—a beautiful, kind horse with immense talent," she said. "I hope Maryland breeders will support him the way he supported us every time he ran."
