The trainer is A P O'Brien, based at Cashel in County Tipperary, and that name alone tells you something. The yard has sent out 125 winners already this season, which is the kind of number that only comes from an operation running at the very top of the sport. When a horse steps onto a racecourse for the first time carrying that address on its passport, it arrives with serious expectations attached. O'Brien does not lack for options, so the fact that Drumbeat is being put into a race at all suggests the team have seen enough at home to think it is ready. Whether it lives up to that on the day is the question — but the surroundings could hardly be better.