For a moment, it appeared Bregman Family Racing and Swinbank Stables’ Governor Sam  might run away with the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G1T) Nov. 1 at Del Mar. The son of Improbable jumped out to an early lead before losing steam mere strides from the wire and finishing third to late-surging Magnum Force  and Arizona Blaze . Despite the third, […]

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 […]