True Timber, the Grade 1 Cigar Mile runner-up who portends to be a longshot in the $9 million Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 26, was credited with a six-furlong workout in 1:14.80 Friday morning over Belmont Park’s training track.

According to Joe Lee, the assistant to trainer Kiaran McLaughlin, True Timber worked outside of Exulting. The pair broke off at the five-furlong pole and went their first quarter in 25 seconds and went from the three-furlong pole to the wire in 36 seconds over a fast, but cuppy track. True Timber went from the wire to the seven-eighths pole in 13.80 seconds.

Lee said the training track clockers told him it was a very good work considering the way the track was on Friday morning after cold temperatures made for some dirt clods on the surface. Tractors did go around twice before the second break and True Timber came out shortly after that.

While acknowledging that True Timber will have his work cut out for him going 1 1-8 miles against the likes of Accelerate in the Pegasus, Lee said True Timber “looks better than he ever has.”

True Timber is expected to van from New York to McLaughlin's barn at Palm Meadows on Monday.