True Timber is SW52 for Mineshaft winning the Gr1 Cigar Mile (8f) at Aqueduct.
Previously second and third in this race, True Timber went clear into the stretch and then stayed on strongly to defeat Snapper Sinclair (City Zip) by 5-1/2 lengths on the muddy track.
It is the fifth win from 29 starts for the Calumet Farm-owned six-year-old, sold for $170,000 as a Keeneland weanling.
He is the best of three winners left by Queen’s Wood (Tiznow), a half-sister to French Listed-placed Marbeuf (Bahri) and French Listed-placed Tustarta (Trempolino), the dam of Listed Washington Singer Stakes at Newbury winner Cry Of Freedom (Street Cry) and Canadian Listed winner Lickety Lemon (Lemon Drop Kid).
True Timber is the seventh Gr1 winner for Mineshaft (A P Indy), advertised at $15,000 at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky.