The Jockeys’ Guild today pushed back on HISA’s six-month suspension of Paco Lopez, calling it “uncalled for and beyond ludicrous.”
HISA has come down hard on Paco Lopez, hitting him with a 6-month suspension after the organization deemed him to have violated crop rules.
Jockey Paco Lopez won five races, including four Claiming Crown Preview events, on a banner day at Colonial Downs.
Classy 7-year-old New Jersey-bred He’spuregold won Monmouth’s Irish War Cry Handicap Sunday for the fifth consecutive year.
Paco Lopez won a dozen races, including three stakes, last week to share Jockeys’ Guild Jockey of the Week honors with Umberto Rispoli.
Vote No rallied late to prevail in Delaware Park’s Cape Henlopen, one of three undercard stakes on the Delaware Derby and Oaks card.
A pair of Maryland-breds, multiple graded winner Future Is Now and 2yo Romeo, settled for minor spoils in Saratoga stakes Thursday.
Maryland-bred Future Is Now, who earned her first graded win last year in the Intercontinental, will return to Saratoga Thursday to defend it.
Slow-starting Kentucky Outlaw overcame early troubles to win the Long Branch Stakes kicking off the Monmouth Park meet.
Grade 1-winning millionaire Book’em Danno kicked off his 4-year-old season with a near-track-record win in the Boston Handicap at Colonial Downs.