Racing

Future is Now Tops Field of 10 for Giant's Causeway

The Estate of R. Larry Johnson’s Future Is Now headlines a field of 10 fillies and mares entered Sunday for the 28th running of the $350,000 Giant’s Causeway (G3) going 5½ furlongs on the grass.

The Giant’s Causeway will go as the eighth race on the nine-race Sunday, April 13 program with a 4:44 p.m. post time. First post is 1 p.m.

Trained by Mike Trombetta, Future Is Now is a two-time Grade 2 winner with the most recent of those victories coming in last fall’s Franklin (G2) here. A victory next week would make her the first horse to win the Franklin and come back the following spring and win the Giant’s Causeway.

Regular rider Paco Lopez has the mount from post 4.

NBS Stable and Elements Racing’s multiple stakes-winning Danse Macabre and Wertheimer and Frere’s Toupie loom as the major threats to Future Is Now.

Now trained by Christophe Clement, Danse Macabre will be making her 2025 debut and exit post 6 under Joel Rosario.

Toupie, trained by Graham Motion, enters the Giant’s Causeway off a victory in the Las Cienegas (G3) at Santa Anita in January. Flavien Prat, who was aboard for that victory, has the call Sunday from post 2.