Leading international jockey Edgar Prado will lead a host of top riders set to arrive in Trinidad and Tobago for tomorrow's Caribbean Racing Challenge at Santa Rosa Park.

Prado is expected to be joined by the likes of American Corey Nakatani, top-flight English jockey Richard Hughes and the Puerto Rican Irad Ortiz Jr.

Veteran Trinidadian rider Emile Ramsammy, fresh from another successful stint at Woodbine in Canada, will join the star-studded cast.

The 44-year-old Prado is a US Hall-of-Famer who captured the prestigious Kentucky Derby five years ago with the ill-fated BARBARO and has also won the Belmont Stakes twice.

The Challenge, hailed as the greatest day in the history of the sport of horse racing in the Caribbean, when the horses from Barbados, Jamaica, St Kitts and Trinidad and Tobago will battle in 10 events for US$650,000.

Two members of the St Kitts quartet, TIZBIG and AMERICAN DANCE, have each won their last four races, while BAD ACTION also won four in a row before finishing eighth in the prestigious Sandy Lane Gold Cup in Barbados in his last start. Although that effort was way back in March, the American-bred five-year-old was listed as ante-post 3-1 third favourite in the programme for the Imported Turf Stayers Challenge.

This US$50,000 contest will be the second event on the card and seven will oppose BAD ACTION over 1800 metres on the grass at 11:51. a.m. RAGING HALO, the Champion Turf Performer at Santa Rosa over the past two seasons, is the 7-5 ante-post favourite, while JOEZEL is next in the betting at 3-1.

TIZBIG will be going for fifth consecutive win in the 11:15 a.m. opener, the Imported Sprint Challenge and the five-year-old son of two-time Breeders' Cup Classic winner TIZNOW is also the ante-post third favourite at 4-1.

Also down to run on the card are the Jamaican horses ESQUIRE, ODIN and OASIS, as well as the 2009 Jamaica St. Leger winner BRUCEONTHELOOSE, now T&T's reigning Horse of the Year.