Post Time Named 2024 Aiken Trained Horse Of The Year

Post Time won the 2024 Carter Handicap (G2) and General George Stakes (G3). The 4-year-old horse raced nine times in 2024 with four wins, three seconds and two thirds. He has $975,000 in earnings for the year and $1,227,910 career earnings. He also finished second in the 2024 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1).

Post Time is owned by Ellen Charles of Hillwood Stable, who named the horse Post Time because of a connection to her grandmother, the former owner of General Foods Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887-1973).

He is a foal of 2020 who was bred in Maryland by Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Bowman, Dr. Brooke Bowman and Milton P. Higgins III. The grey/roan horse is by Frosted and Vielsalm by Fairbanks.

Post Time was purchased by Cary Frommer at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Fall Yearling Sale 2021 for $85,000. Mrs. Charles fell in love with the horse and her Hillwood Stable, LLC purchased him from Frommer shortly after the sale. He was trained at the historic Aiken Training Track under the tutelage of Frommer.

Once ready, he was sent to trainer Brittany Russell at Fair Hill Training Center, Elkton, Md., who is his trainer to this day. Assistant trainer Emma Wolfe has been a very important part of his training as his exercise rider and travels with him when he is on the road. Eric Camacho was his original jockey and rode him until he was injured in January 2023. In April of 2023, Post Time went to Fox Hall Equine Rehabilitation Center in Fallston, Md. for Physical Therapy and Aquatread therapy. He spent two months rehabbing there and then went back to Brittany Russell at Fair Hill. His first race back was in September 2023, missing quite a bit of racing as a 3-year-old. Luis Barajas and Emeterio Rodrigues are his grooms.

The Aiken Trained Horse of the Year award, created in 2002, honors local Thoroughbreds who have had an excellent racing season. Nominees must have trained in Aiken County AND must have won at least one graded stakes race during the year OR exceeded $500,000 in career earnings. The Hall of Fame Advisory Board approves the winner.

An induction ceremony will be held on Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 1:30 pm at the Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame. An exhibit about Post Time will be on display. The public is invited to attend the ceremony. The Hall of Fame is located at 135 Dupree Place, Aiken, SC 29801 inside historic Hopelands Gardens.

Past winners include Congaree (2002), Wando (2003), Limehouse (2005), Bob and John (2006), Country Star (2007), Midshipman (2008), Quality Road (2009 & 2010), It’s Tricky (2011), Alpha (2012) Palace Malice (2013 & 2014), Curalina (2015 & 2016), Dickinson (2017), Still Having Fun (2018), Concrete Rose (2019), Madone (2021) and Private Creed (2022 & 2023).