EPSOM Derby hope Indiscreet is set to take an unusual path to Epsom via Beverley. David Loder is to give the leading winter Classic fancy a belated first run of the season in Saturday's Black Mill Conditions Stakes on a course where the trainer has a record second to none. Kevin Darley will take the mount.
Indiscreet was 8 to 1 third favourite for the Pertemps 2,000 Guineas with William Hill at the start of the year after an impressive victory in a York maiden last August on his only start. He was forced to miss last week's first colts' Classic but remains a 25 to 1 shot for the Derby.
Loder is no stranger to Beverley as he has won with 15 of his 25 runners at the course in the past three years for a 60 per cent strike-rate.
He will be hoping Indiscreet follows a similar path to stable-mate Bianca Nera, who made a winning debut there last August before going on to success in Group Two company at York and a Group One event at the Curragh.
The last genuine Classic contender to appear at Beverley as a three-year-old was the Peter Chapple-Hyam-trained White Muzzle.
He won the 1993 running of Saturday's race before landing the Italian Derby and finishing second in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
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