Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer
Miracle Man, running at odds of 9-2 with Florida-based Jamaican jockey Allen Maragh aboard, romps the 27th Red Stripe Superstakes over 2000 metres at Caymanas Park on Saturday November 12, 2005. Miracle Man went from post-to-post, scoring by six lengths over Distinctly Irish (right) with Winston Griffiths aboardd and fourth place Good Company (left), ridden by CHarles Hussey. Eleven ran.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (CMC)

Jamaican super horse Miracle Man goes for regional glory today when he tackles a quality 12-horse field in the US$100,000 Confraternity Classic at the El Commandante race track.

The field of four and five-year-old entries from hosts Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela and Panama, will go 9-1/2 furlongs with a purse of approximately US$58,000 going to the winner.

Miracle Man, one of the best thoroughbreds ever to come out of Jamaica, arrived in Puerto Rico the week after he had won the mid-November Red Stripe Superstakes at Caymanas Park in Jamaica.

Looking lively

The big four-year-old chestnut colt, to be ridden by Florida-based Panamanian Cecelio Penaldo, has looked lively at exercise gallops in the past week under the care of veteran trainer Billy Williams.

Miracle Man, the 2005 Jamaica Derby champion and twice winner of the rich Red Stripe Superstakes, has won 10 consecutive races in Jamaica and will run from post-position number four in the Confraternity Classic.

He will carry 116 pounds, getting a five-pound weight allowance allotted to horses entered from countries that have never won the Classic.

Apart from five local (Puerto Rican) entries, the field also includes the lone filly in the line-up Blue Secret, Lord Enzo and Blazing Free from Venezuela, Mexico's Wild Card and Yack Lider, and Rafaello from Panama.