'Bruce on the Loose' for T&T Derby

Venezuelan jockey Wilmer Galviz says he will win today’s Republic Bank Trinidad and Tobago Derby aboard the super Jamaica-bred colt, BRUCE ON THE LOOSE, at Santa Rosa Park.



Expected to go off as one of the shortest-priced favourites in the 80th running of the T&T Derby, BRUCE ON THE LOOSE will run from post position eight and the Florida-based Galviz does not believe his mount has any serious challengers in the Classic, worth T&T$500,000.



BRUCE ON THE LOOSE was a runaway winner of his only two starts at Santa Rosa Park since his arrival from Jamaica earlier this summer.



On August 1, he won the Midsummer Classic, the second leg of T&T’s Triple Crown series, by 5-and-three-quarter lengths and returned four weeks later to slam a 15-horse field in a Starter Allowance event by eight-and-a-half lengths.



BRUCE ON THE LOOSE had won two legs of the Jamaica Triple Crown the Guineas and the St Leger but was narrowly beaten in the Derby.



The race will also feature MARATHON MAN, another Jamaica-bred, to be ridden by Calder-based Jamaican rider Wesley Henry.



Seven other Jamaica-bred horses are in the Derby field of 13.