Believed

What gives this profile real interest is who is doing the training. J P Murtagh's yard in Co Kildare has sent out 54 winners already this season — that is a serious operation, the kind of stable that knows how to place a horse and bring it to a peak at the right moment. Having a lightly raced three-year-old like Believed in that environment, with only two races on the clock and a place already banked, suggests there is plenty of time and plenty of belief in what this horse might become. The name, as it turns out, may be doing some work.

With just two races to go on, Believed is still very much an unknown quantity — but an unknown quantity trained by one of the best yards around, who raced just yesterday and is clearly being kept active. The next run will tell us a good deal more.