30 years on: how Dermot Weld masterminded Europe's only US Triple Crown race win

As the rain fell hard on a stormy Maryland night in October 1989, Dermot Weld surely must have sat and cursed his luck.

After successfully negotiating the near 3,500-mile trip from the Curragh to the east of the United States, his ambitious plan to capture the Laurel Futurity Stakes, a Grade 2 for two-year-olds run on turf at Laurel Park, looked to be coming unstuck.

His Listed Tyros Stakes hero Go And Go was primed to the minute, but a rainstorm meant that at the eleventh hour, the race was switched from grass to dirt.