Mario Gutierrez: Kentucky Derby

Gutierrez Dept: At 19, Mario Gutierrez was lured from the big racetrack in Mexico City to a racetrack in Vancouver called Hastings that he had never heard of by a group of horsemen here who knew talent when they saw it and decided to run with it, according to Vancouver Sun. Now, in one of those improbable twists of fate, Gutierrez will ride in the fabled Kentucky Derby this Saturday. He will run for the roses. And many eyes in Vancouver will be on him, cheering from afar and he grew up in a poor family in a small place in Veracruz, Mexico. His father, a jockey, gave him a love of horses. Gutierrez never disappointed them. Since his arrival in 2006, he has been one of the Hastings track's star jockeys. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.