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.
Paco Lopez has the green light from HISA to resume riding, the organization said, following a suspension for his actions following a Dec. 4 race.
Jockey Paco Lopez is nearing the 4,000-win milestone, and while he hopes to reach it at Monmouth Park, he’ll need to hurry.
