Paco Lopez

So is Teresa Haught, Anthony Pecoraro, the trainer.

Paco Lopez won on Beautiful Blom, a four-year-old filly by Blowfail.

She was a stakes winner here.

Delaware is a two-year-old.

He ran a good second going a mile on a soft turf course at Penn National last time.

So Kittens Floyd, that horse has been running well, might be live at a decent price.

Then you have Ironsides here, who attracts Paco Lopez, our leading rider.

Paco had a four-win day on Wednesday of this week.

He had the lead middle of the stretch.

He was in with some really tough horses with Paco Lopez on him.

But you could see in the middle.

Oh, Paco.

I mean, she just opened up on them.

Paco Lopez is aboard in that second start.

He's named to ride once again.

I don't know.

Time form suggests she's in front.

I don't know if she really makes the lead here or if she does it easily, David, because she didn't go all that quick last time out.

no you're right i mean she's ran in some slower paced races though if you watch the start of her last race like it's easy to imagine her making the lead again here because she just busted out of the gate and quickly established the lead obviously not facing much of quality that day as she won quite easily at the end uh she was coming back on just one week's rest following her debut race where she dueled with great destiny got a little tired actually was the one that bumped great destiny at the top of the stretch before tiring so she was more professional last time Paco Lopez is going to stick, even though it's been almost three months since she last raced.

She's definitely one of the contenders in here, but given the jockey named before, I thought she might be a little over fit.

Didn't the percentage of winning favorites go up? Yes, absolutely.

Paco Lopez, who was, you know, the worst offender in the history of racing with the whip.

He was able to get, get through it.

They don't allow whipping.

Baymont Parfait at fifth race on Monday.

And he drew the pole and I love our jockey Paco Lopez.

He's our, he's our jockey when he's available.

So he's on it.

And then next time in the Haskell, I mean, we could say a lot of things about the ride and maybe getting a little bit too concerned about trying to ride parts of the racetrack and keeping other horses in certain spots.

That's the way Paco Lopez, his former jockey, rides races.

But still, Napoleon Solo ran well that day.

He did get a great trip, probably very similar to the trip he's going to work out in this Travers.

He was the upset winner of the Haskell at 28 to 1.

Let's take a look at the stretch run of that race as he fends off Napoleon Solo, who is trying to keep him in pretty tight at the top of the stretch.

Here you can see that Jorre Vargas Jr. sneaking through along the inside with Baby Vino and Paco Lopez on Napoleon Solo, trying to make it as tight as possible.

They're going to exchange some bumps in upper stretch, but-

He's coming in from Churchill.

So that's probably going to take some money because people will see the bigger circuits and Paco Lopez jumps aboard.

And so that will probably have him take some money as well.

So he's, and he's going to have to go from a mile and a 16th against the maiden 12 fives to a mile and a quarter against some of these horses who have 10. and 11 victories and some pretty seasoned horses.

Yeah, he's pretty good, but he better be tied on because we have a pretty tough jockey colony here.

We got Paco Lopez and Julio Hardride and Hernandez, a bunch of other good riders.

Cipriano Gill is doing pretty good.

So we have a much better jockey colony than they do up in New York.