Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Friday | December 4, 2009
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Jamaica's super 'Bruce' on show again tomorrow

BRUCEONTHELOOSE (Winston Griffiths) will be in action tomorrow in Trinidad and Tobago with an apprentice rider aboard. - File photos

ARIMA, Trinidad (CMC):

Jamaica-bred super horse Bruceontheloose will be the main attraction on Trinidad and Tobago's nine-race card as he puts his unbeaten Santa Rosa Park record on the line tomorrow afternoon.

The three-year-old colt, a smashing winner of the T&T Derby in September, faces six rivals in Saturday's 1,750-metre Stakes & Lower Handicap worth TT$70,000 (US$10,937).

Brian Boodramsingh, a claiming apprentice, will be astride the John O'Brien-trained roan colt, who shoulders 59.5 kilos, the heaviest weight allotted to any horse by the Arima Race Club handicappers this season.

Boodramsingh is currently 10th in the 2009 Santa Rosa jockeys' standings with 14 wins.

The field includes champion eight-year-old Chief Commander, also from the O'Brien barn, and the US-import Raging Halo.

A double classic winner in Jamaica earlier this year before arriving in Trinidad, Bruceontheloose has already won four times this year at Santa Rosa Park.

Hot favourite

As a hot 1-5 favourite, he recorded the biggest-ever victory margin in a T&T Derby with a 15-length win and went on to also capture the TT$200,000 (US$33,000) Caribbean Champion Stakes in October.

Jamaica-bred entries are also highly fancied in the main events on Saturday's card - Treasure Hunt in the TT$150,000 (US$23,437) and Royal Baby in the TT$150,000 (US$23,437) St Ann's Stakes.

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