What we do know is the breeding. His father, Ubettabelieveit, was a sharp, speedy type, and his mother comes from the Zebedee line — another sire associated with early pace and precocity in young horses. That combination hints at a horse built to be competitive at two, rather than one who needs time to fill out and develop. Whether that breeding translates into ability on the track is exactly what today is for.
He's trained by Tony Culhane and Stella Barclay at their yard in Garstang, Lancashire — a small operation by the standards of the big racing centres, but one that has already sent out 6 winners this season. That's a healthy return for a yard of their size, and it suggests the team knows what it's doing when it comes to placing horses in races they can win. When a smaller yard like this bothers to run a first-time-out two-year-old, it's often because they've liked what they've seen on the gallops at home. They don't have the luxury of running horses just for experience the way a yard with 200 boxes might.
Everything today is unknown quantity, but that's half the fun.