Irish Colt Evolving Tactics Likely Heading For Derby

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Churchill Downs officials have been notified that Moyglare Stud Farm's Irish-bred Evolving Tactics is scheduled to ship to the United States later this week for a possible run in Kentucky Derby 129.

The son of Machiavellian, scored the first victory of his three-race career on Monday at Ireland's Cork race course for trainer Dermot Weld, is tentatively scheduled to fly from East Midlands airport in Britain to New York's JFK on Saturday, April 26. Evolving Tactics is scheduled to clear customs and undergo USDA blood tests in New York before the colt flies to Cincinnati. He will then travel by van for quarantine at Keeneland and the colt is expected to travel to Churchill Downs when he clears quarantine.

Weld has enjoyed U.S. success with a victory by Moyglare's Go and Go in the 1990 Belmont Stakes and also trains Refuse To Bend, a Moyglare colt who is considered a major contender for Britain's 2,000 Guineas (Group I). He has never saddled a horse in the Kentucky Derby.

Evolving Tactics, an early nominee to the Visa Triple Crown, scored a two-length victory over Sharesha in Monday's one-mile maiden race for 3-year-olds on grass. He completed the distance in 1:39.30. Weld's colt had finished third to the Aidan O'Brien-trained Dalcassian a one-mile race at The Curragh on April 3 in his only previous race of the year. The colt finished eighth behind New South Wales in his only start at two, which also came in a one-mile race at the Curragh.

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