Published August 23, 2024 Over the last few months, a trio of Mid-Atlantic-bred fillies and mares have established something of a rivalry, often entered in the same turf sprints and trading wins and placings. Most recently, Dontlookbackatall (PA), Roses for Debra (PA), and Future Is Now (MD) were entered in the Caress Stakes (G3) at…
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…
Under an unsettled Saratoga sky, R. Larry Johnson’s homebred Future Is Now earned her first graded stakes win in the $200,000 Intercontinental Stakes (G2T), edging favored Roses for Debra in a photo finish. Minutes after a downpour and high winds passed through Saratoga Race Course on June 7, nine fillies and mares lined up for the 5 1/2-furlong race run over a…
At no point during the running of the $150,000 Tremont Stakes did Studlydoright look like a winner, except for when it really counted. In the first stakes race of the four-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course, the two-year-old colt broke with alacrity from post 1 under jockey Xavier Perez, putting a head…
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