Terror To Love is a $3.50 favourite with the TAB after fine form this season including a last-start third to Sushi Sushi and Anvils Top Gun in the Great Northern Derby. Curtin drove Sleepy Tripp to win the 2009 New Zealand Derby.
Curtin will attend a doctor today for a medical clearance.
He received 10 stitches in his left leg after he was unseated from Vibrate in race 13 at Addington last Friday night.
Vibrate was a late scratching and Curtin went to hospital.
"I have been resting and I am able to walk OK. The leg feels good," Curtin said.
The Templeton horseman had mixed fortunes last Friday. He drove Far Too Rusty to win, but Hokonui Ben, another of his drives, faltered in a race and disorganised the field. Hokonui Ben was stood down until he gives a satisfactory trial.
Curtin has been the regular driver of the Graham and Paul Court-trained Terror To Love since he drove the colt to win the New Zealand Sapling Stakes for 2yr-olds.
Curtin missed the first two races of Terror To Love this season when he was out of action for five months last year with a fractured wrist.
Terror To Love won a heat of the Sires' Stakes at Addington in the hands of David Butt at his second start as a 3yr-old. Curtin has driven Terror To Love in his other nine starts for five wins and three minor placings.
He views his chance: "The draw [second line] is not the best but the horse is good." Terror To Love has not raced since the Northern Derby on March 11 but he ran a brilliant 2.56.1 for 2400m (mobile), the last 800m in 54.7 in a trial at Ashburton on April 13.
"He seems well but it would have been nice to have had another race under his belt," Paul Court said. "It has been frustrating.
We and other trainers asked the Metropolitan club to stage a Derby prelude but it fell on deaf ears."
Sleepy Tripp was trained by Mark Purdon and Grant Payne who have Major Mark engaged on Saturday. Purdon has won the race seven times as a trainer and eight as a driver.
• Four Starzzz Flash and reinsman Dexter Dunn should be a formidable combination in the $25,000 Forbury Park Championship tonight.
The group three race was previously restricted to 4yr-olds but has been extended to include 5yr-olds. Four Starzzz Flash is now fulfilling the promise he showed as a 3yr-old last season.
He won the Akaroa Cup on grass at Motukarara at his last start from a 30m handicap. He won at Rangiora in a 1.58.1 mile rate for 2000m (mobile) two starts earlier. He has finished second in the Invercargill and Marlborough Cups.
Dunn has driven Four Starzzz Flash in his three most recent wins.
Wee Brother, the Marlborough Cup winner, is in the field tonight. Ricky May continues as his driver. The TAB has Kotare Mach favourite at $2.70, ahead of Four Starzzz Flash at $3.
Trainer Robbie Holmes has a useful hand with Motu Racy Girl and Eleanor Roosevelt in the heat of the Sires' Stakes for 3yr-old fillies tonight.
Motu Racy Girl, who has drawn three over 1700m, won over a mile in 1.58.5 at Winton in December.
Eleanor Roosevelt, who starts from the second line, has won four races, including a mile in 1.57 at Winton.
Paradise City has been scratched tonight due to a muscular disorder.
"She tied up after her work this week," Barry Ward, her owner-trainer said.
Paradise City ran second to Maid In Splendour in a heat at Addington last Friday. Paradise City won a heat in 1.56 for the mile at Ashburton in February.
"She really needs racing to keep at peak," Ward said.
