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ARSON SQUAD ROLLS IN ALYSHEBA

Cory — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:44:31 +0000

For the second time in four weeks, jockey Paco Lopez guided Arson Squad to victory in a graded stakes, this time to a 2 1/4 length score in Friday's Grade 3, $169,650 Alysheba Stakes at Churchill Downs, Flying Private finished second by 1 1/2 lenghts over Enriched. He was followed by in the order of finish by Prom Shoes, Chocolate Candy, Cool Coal Man, Macho Again,Friesan Fire and Bullsbay. Arson Squad, a 7 year-old son of Brahms owned by Samantha Siegel's Jay Em Ess Stable & trained by Richard Dutrow Jr, covered the 1 1/16 miles in 1:43.28 and returned $9.40 as the second choice.

PACO LOPEZ WINS GULFSTREAM PARK 2010 JOCKEY TITLE

Cory — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:02:10 +0000

Paco Lopez in Gulfstream paddock-February 2010

Cory — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:07:58 +0000

BLIZZARD CONDITIONS FINAL MEADOWLANDS NIGHT-2009

Cory — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:03:44 +0000

LOPEZ PULLING DOUBLE DUTY-by Mike Welsch-Daily Racing Form

Cory — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:32:35 +0000

Miami- Paco Lopez captured his first Meadowlands jockey title on saturday night. He celebrated that milestone the following afternoon by engaging in one of his favorite past-times: Riding in a Quarter Horse race. Lopez not only rode a Quarter Horse race on Sunday, he won the opening event that day at Hialeah Park aboard a first-time starter named High Bar Jesse. "Paco says he enjoys riding Quarter Horse races even more than Thoroughbred races," said Lopez's agent, Cory Moran. "Here he goes and wraps up the Meadowlands riding title in a blizzard in New Jersey late Saturday evening, and the next afternoon he's in South Florida riding Quarter Horses." Lopez is no stranger to Quarter Horses. In fact the 24-year-old journeymen has been riding Quarter Horse races for half his life, having begun in his native Mexico at the age of 12. He said that he had won several thousand Quarter Horse races before finally switching over to the Thoroughbreds on a regular basis when he came to Calder during the spring of 2007. Lopez's career really took off the following year. As an apprentice, Lopez ran away with the 2008 Calder riding title by winning 161 races, 40 more than runner-up Manual Cruz. He was eventually named the Eclipse Award winner as the outstanding apprentice jockey of 2008. Lopez, who was back at Calder on Monday, moved his tack to New Jersey for the first time on a regular basis this year and finished seventh in the standings during the long Monmouth Park meet before breaking out to dominate the recently concluded Meadowlands session. "Although Paco would love to keep going over to Hialeah and riding Quarter Horses, we've got to start concentrating on our major goal at the moment, which is to have a big Gulfstream meeting," Moran said. "He may go over to Hialeah or up to Tampa to ride an occasional stakes race this month and hoping to build on all the success he had at the Meadowlands heading into the winter at Gulfstream." The 2010 Gulfstream meet begins on Jan.3.---

PACO LOPEZ WINS IN QUARTER HORSE RACE AT HIALEAH

Cory — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:47:47 +0000

After winning the riding title at the conclusion of the Meadowlands meet yesterday in New Jersey, jockey Paco Lopez rode a winner in today's first race at Hialeah Park. The three year old "High Bar Jesse" was a first time starter trained by Victor Gonzalez. Distance racing was at 550 yards.

PACO LOPEZ WINS 2009 MEADOWLANDS TITLE

Cory — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:46:41 +0000

Paco Lopez ran away with the 2009 leading rider title in his first season at Meadowlands Racetrack.

Lopez led all jockeys with 53 wins and 1.3 million in earnings for the meet, which concluded Saturday Dec 5. Daniel Centeno was a distant second with 38 winners. Lopez, 24, earned an Eclipse Award as the nation's top apprentice rider in 2008 after winning 171 races and 2.6 million. Already a standout on the Florida circuit, he moved his tack to Monmouth Park this summer(rode one month at Belmont) and finished seventh in the standings with 46 victories and 1.6 million in earnings.

"It's pretty special for a rider to come to New Jersey his first year and be the leading rider at the Meadowlands, especially with the caliber of riders that are there," noted his agent, Cory Moran

GATOR BREW WINS LINDSAY FROLIC IN BLANKET FINISH

Cory — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:36:40 +0000

Virginia and James Gamble's Florida homebred 2-year-old filly Gator Brew won a tight photo finish and survived a jockey's claim of foul to win the $100,000 Lindsay Frolic Stakes at Calder's Juvenile Showcase on Saturday. The race marked jockey Paco Lopez's third win of the afternoon and second victory of the day for trainer Bill White.

Actors Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston filming at Monmouth Park

Cory — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:17:08 +0000

Cliff Collier and Cory meets actor Gerard Butler between takes on the set for the new film The Bounty (2010 release)

Jennifer Aniston & Gerard Butler film latest at Monmouth Park

Cory — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:26:27 +0000

Cory and Cliff Collier(agent for Elvis Trujillo) with actress Jennifer Aniston after filming a segment in the Columbia Pictures comedy "The Bounty" directed by Andy Tennant.