A little after 5pm ET on Friday afternoon, R. Larry Johnson answered the phone at his Virginia home, a bit surprised to hear from a reporter from Saratoga Springs. 

Alone in his family room, he’d just watched his four-year-old Maryland homebred Future Is Now win a tight photo finish in the Intercontinental Stakes (G2) at Saratoga Race Course to earn her first graded stakes win.

“I was screaming as loud as I could,” he said. “My mind had gone completely blank.

 This is amazing. Wow.”