Itsinthepost (FR)

Itsinthepost made 21 starts before testing stakes competition for the first time as a 5-year-old in 2017. He ran second in the Grade 3 San Gabriel Stakes and second in the Grade 2 San Marcos Stakes to open the year. Itsinthepost earned a breakthrough victory in the Grade 2 San Luis Rey Stakes and followed with a win at Keeneland in the Grade 2 Dixiana Elkhorn Stakes.

The Jeff Mullins trainee then finished fifth in two consecutive graded stakes tries before coming up three-quarters of a length short to Hunt in the Grade 2 Del Mar Handicap on Aug. 19 after having to steady in the stretch. Itsinthepost once again found a bit of traffic trouble in the stretch when racing in the Oct. 1 Grade 2 John Henry Turf Championship Stakes, but the gelding found room late and edged pacesetter Prime Attraction to tally his third graded stakes score of 2017. He closed his 2017 season with a seventh-place finish in the Longines Breeders' Cup Turf.

Itsinthepost made his 6-year-old debut in the Grade 2 San Gabriel Stakes at Santa Anita Park on Jan. 6 and finished powerfully in the stretch to win impressively. He then backed that Grade 2 win up with another one, albeit in tougher fashion, edging Hayabusa One by a nose in the San Marcos Stakes on Feb. 3. He made it three Grade 2s in as many starts in 2018 when he pulled away to win the San Luis Rey Stakes on March 24.

Itsinthepost shipped to Central kentucky for the April 21 Elkhorn Stakes, a Grade 2 race at Keeneland, and saw his winning streak halted when he finished third, beaten by three-quarters of a length. He regained his winning form with a return to Southern California, where he won the Grade 2 Charles Whittingham Stakes on May 26 at Santa Anita Park. Itsinthepost was unplaced in his final two starts of 2018, both in Grade 2 races at Del Mar.

In his second start of 2019, Itsinthepost took command in the stretch of the Grade 3 Cougar II Handicap but had to settle for second after he was passed late by Campaign. After a sixth-place finish in the Grade 2 Del Mar Handicap Presented by The Japan Racing Association, Itsinthepost halted a five-race winless stretch with a determined victory in the Grade 2 Marathon Stakes Presented by the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance on the 2019 Breeders’ Cup Future Stars Friday card Nov. 1 at Santa Anita.