🔒 🔒 First-season sires face early test as seven-figure yearlings step out at Kensington

The first official two-year-old trials of the 2026/27 season will bring together progeny from the new stallion intake and two seven-figure yearlings at Randwick’s Kensington track on Monday.

A total of 58 juveniles are listed across nine 850-metre heats, beginning at 9am.

The fields include 10 runners by seven stallions featured in The Straight’s assessment of the freshman-sire market. Anamoe, Hitotsu and In The Congo have two apiece. Jacquinot, Sejardan, State Of Rest and Top Ranked each have one.

Anamoe was the clear sales leader among the first-season sires in 2026. Sixty-five of his yearlings sold for $25.595 million at an average of $393,769 and a median of $350,000. His first crop contained the only seven-figure yearling by a freshman sire, a $1.1 million colt out of Secret Trail.

Two Anamoe juveniles are listed on Monday. Bjorn Baker trains Nonu, a colt out of Easifar, in the seventh heat, while Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott will produce Runaway Diva, a filly out of Fleet Dove, in the following heat.

In The Congo and Jacquinot were the only other first-season sires whose 2026 yearlings averaged more than $100,000. In The Congo has Gellar, trained by Gary Portelli, and Baker’s Heart Of Congo engaged. Jacquinot’s representative is the Geoff Allendorf-trained Eagle Jac.

Arrowfield’s Hitotsu has two runners from a first crop of 112 foals. Unmei contests the second heat for Baker, while Gary Nickson has Chasing Archer in the third. State Of Rest’s runner Stasis is in the fifth heat, with Top Ranked represented by Elite Deceit in the third.

Two colts bought for seven figures at the 2026 yearling sales are among the acceptances.

Moneyball appears in the fifth heat for Michael Freedman. By Frankel out of the American mare Miss Alacrity, he races for the James Harron Bloodstock colts partnership and related investors. McDonald is also listed to ride the $1.1 million colt.

Stablemate True North, a $1.2 million purchase, is by Snitzel out of Group 1 winner Krone and also makes his first appearance in Harron’s colours.

Zoustar and Ole Kirk lead sire representation with four runners each. I Am Invincible and Capitalist have three apiece.

Along with Anamoe, Hitotsu and In The Congo, Hellbent, Trapeze Artist, Bivouac, Farnan, Home Affairs and Snitzel also have two runners each.

Zoustar’s four are Star Of Oz, Starseer, Fly High and Gracious. Capitalist is represented by Ocean Veil, Shezablaze and Champagne Reign, while the I Am Invincible team comprises Fiji, Parquet and Flip The Script.

Randwick 2YO trial fields

Race 1 – 2YO Colts & Geldings Trial (850m)

COMINO (Brutal (NZ)), John Thompson – $180,000

DOWN TO HELL (Hellbent), Bjorn Baker – $200,000

GLINTING (The Autumn Sun), Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott – $250,000

INTERNAL SECURITY (Home Affairs), Chris Waller

KISSING BOOTH (Tassort), Gary Portelli – $30,000

OCEAN VEIL (Capitalist), Peter Snowden

PROVERB (Written Tycoon), Michael Freedman – $700,000

Race 2 – 2YO Fillies Trial (850m)

COOL SUMMIT (Cool Aza Beel (NZ)), Gary Portelli

OUTBACK AFFAIR (Home Affairs), Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott – $290,000

ROSARITO (Bivouac), Ciaron Maher

SHEZABLAZE (Capitalist), Peter Snowden – $170,000

STAR OF OZ (Zoustar), Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott – $500,000

UNMEI (Hitotsu), Bjorn Baker – $200,000

Race 3 – 2YO Colts & Geldings Trial (850m)

CHASING ARCHER (Hitotsu), Gary Nickson – $40,000

CORONADO (Ole Kirk), Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott – $320,000

ELITE DECEIT (Top Ranked (IRE)), Annabel & Rob Archibald – $210,000

FIJI (I Am Invincible), Chris Waller – $675,000

LUCE PARISTON (Profiteer), Steve Englebrecht – $42,500

LUCKY EIGHTEEN (Trapeze Artist), John Thompson – $60,000

SEJATA (Sejardan), Gary Portelli – $80,000

Race 4 – 2YO Fillies Trial (850m)

ENFIELD (Snitzel), John Thompson – $450,000

GELLAR (In The Congo), Gary Portelli – $10,000

PARQUET (I Am Invincible), Bjorn Baker – $300,000

PROVATA (Pierata), John O’Shea & Tom Charlton – $100,000

SHRADDHA (Ole Kirk), Michael Freedman – $250,000

STARSEER (Zoustar), Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott – $550,000

Race 5 – 2YO Colts & Geldings Trial (850m)

CHAMPAGNE REIGN (Capitalist), Gary Portelli – $130,000

FARZOU (Farnan), Peter Snowden – $120,000

FLY HIGH (Zoustar), Annabel & Rob Archibald

LEAD THE CHARGE (Starspangledbanner), John Sargent – $75,000

MONEYBALL (Frankel (GB)), Michael Freedman – $1,100,000

OUT OF BOUNDS (Stay Inside), Bjorn Baker – $475,000

STASIS (State Of Rest (IRE)), Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott – $250,000

Race 6 – 2YO Fillies Trial (850m)

BOURBON BEAT (Hellbent), Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott – $350,000

FARNANS SWEETHEART (Farnan), Sara Ryan – $60,000

GRACIOUS (Zoustar), Michael Freedman – $625,000

O’HIGH SPIRIT (Ole Kirk), Bjorn Baker – $275,000

PARTY STARLET (Star Turn), John Thompson – $100,000

SHE’S SUPREME (Exceedance), Marc & Mitchell Conners – $40,000

Race 7 – 2YO Colts & Geldings Trial (850m)

EAGLE JAC (Jacquinot), Geoff Allendorf – $280,000

FLIP THE SCRIPT (I Am Invincible), Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott – $480,000

HANYU SELECTED (Shamus Award), Tommy Wong – $50,000

MACHO (Ole Kirk), Michael Freedman – $550,000

MAIN ATTRACTION (Alabama Express), Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott – $625,000

NONU (NZ) (Anamoe), Bjorn Baker – $600,000

Race 8 – 2YO Fillies Trial (850m)

ANISTON (Denman), Terry Croft

ARCTIC CHARM (Brazen Beau), Sara Ryan – $50,000

EVERLASTING GRACE (Yes Yes Yes), Clinton McDonald – $200,000

I’M ADMIRED (Admire Mars (JPN)), Shaun Harvey – $24,000

RHYTHM (Justify (USA)), Bjorn Baker – $300,000

RUNAWAY DIVA (Anamoe), Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott – $380,000

Race 9 – 2YO Colts & Geldings Trial (850m)

FLYING HOUDINI (Trapeze Artist), Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott – $60,000

GOLDONADO (Toronado (IRE)), Gary Portelli – $240,000

HEART OF CONGO (In The Congo), Bjorn Baker – $260,000

MACHIAVELLI (Russian Revolution), Peter Snowden – $100,000

NOBLE DANCE (Acrobat), Geoff Allendorf – $70,000

TRUE NORTH (Snitzel), Michael Freedman – $1,200,000

CAPITANO (Bivouac), Michael Freedman – $200,000