“My Mind Was Blank”: Future Is Now… Really

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…

Future Is Now Edges Roses for Debra in Intercontinental

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…