LEXINGTON, KY. — Future Is Now’s present continues to be bright on Sunday, as the mare scored her fourth stakes victory of the year in emphatic fashion with a stakes-record time as she held off hard-luck Star of Mystery in the Grade 2, $350,000 Franklin Stakes for fillies and mares sprinting on the Keeneland turf. […]

If there was an Eclipse Award for top female turf sprinter, it would be hard to argue against voting for R. Larry Johnson’s Future Is Now . The 4-year-old Great Notion   filly has quietly put together as good five months as anyone in Thoroughbred racing, culminating in her stakes-record-setting victory in the $303,244 Franklin Stakes (G2T) at Keeneland Oct. 13. Starting the […]

Bregman Family Racing and Swinbank Stables’ Governor Sam emerged from a tight pack shortly after the start to take the lead and never trailed again under Paco Lopez to hold on for a neck victory over Out On Bail in the Indian Summer (L) Presented by Keeneland Select. The victory was the 4,000th of Lopez’s […]

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The young runner Governor Sam earned his third straight stakes win, and veteran jockey Paco Lopez earned his 4,000th career victory in a score that should send them to the Breeders’ Cup together next month after Sunday’s neck triumph in the $250,000 Indian Summer Stakes at Keeneland. Although the Indian Summer, for […]

They first met through an introduction by trainer Bill White at Calder. Paco Lopez was a 10-pound apprentice at the time. Agent Cory Moran had Junior Alvarado as his only client then and was looking to add a bug rider. That was 2007. More than 19,000 starts later, Lopez and Moran are still going strong […]

Paco Lopez and Claudio Gonzalez topped the respective jockey and trainer standings at Monmouth Park’s 2024 meet Spurred in part by a record handle on NYRA Bets Haskell Stakes Day, Monmouth Park continued its upward trend with increases in both total and on-track handle for the fourth straight year, while jockey Paco Lopez and trainer […]

The Red Bank for older horses at one mile on turf is an open stakes race. The New Jersey-breds didn’t care. He’spuregold, closing determinedly under Paco Lopez, ran down his fellow New Jersey-bred and longtime rival There Are No Words to win the Red Bank on Monday at Monmouth Park. Sir London finished third, Starstruck […]

R. Larry Johnson’s Grade 2-winning Maryland homebred Future Is Now fought back having lost the lead to Star Guest in mid-stretch and survived an inquiry after coming together with that rival moments earlier to register a half-length victory in Friday’s Listed $150,000 Smart N Fancy at Saratoga Race Course. The 12th running of the Smart […]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Michael Trombetta had to sweat out a grueling stretch battle, head bobbing finish, and a stewards’ inquiry but in the end, all that angst proved worth the wait once the official sign finally went up on Future Is Now’s half-length victory over Star Guest in Friday’s $150,000 Smart N Fancy […]

You were wondering why Hall of Fame trainer Neil Drysdale sent St Anthony all the way from California to Monmouth Park for Friday’s Oceanport Stakes, the gelding’s first start since November? St Anthony provided an answer, a dominant 1 1/2-length victory in the $100,000 Oceanport, which failed to fill when originally scheduled last weekend before […]