Thomas Mellon Evans (September 8, 1910 – July 17, 1997) was an American financier who was one of the country's early corporate raiders,[1] as well as a philanthropist and Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder who with Pleasant Colony won the 1981 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes.
She and her husband were affluent enough to provide Thomas with a quality education and he graduated from the Shady Side Academy private school in 1927 [4] and Yale University in 1931.
[5] For a few years after finishing university, Thomas Evans held a clerical job at Gulf Oil, owned at the time by the Mellon family.
Robertson, a Central Kentucky native whose family heritage consisted of a long line of excellent Thoroughbred horsemen, chose the matches between stallions and mares for Buckland Farm.
[11] During Evans' years in racing, trainers who conditioned his horses included John Campo, Ángel Cordero Jr., LeRoy Jolley, Ross Pearce, and Christopher Speckert.