Win rate and top-3 rate will show once this horse has raced.
The trainer is Aidan P O'Brien, based in Cashel, Co Tipperary, and his yard has sent out 125 winners already this season — a number that puts his operation in a different league from almost everyone else in the sport. When a stable is winning at that kind of volume, it tends to mean their horses are well-prepared and well-placed. A debut runner from this team is always worth taking seriously, because they rarely run horses before they are ready.
What happens today will tell us a great deal. A first-time-out winner from a top breeding and a 125-winner yard would announce Book Of Kells as a horse to follow. But even if the race is used as a learning experience, the underlying quality is clearly there — you do not combine Dubawi and Galileo bloodlines by accident.