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Products of Vinery freshman stallion win two Sydney juvenile trials.
Those with youngsters by Ole Kirk in their yard are on good terms with themselves after Monday's first official Sydney juvenile trials of the season at Randwick.
The Vinery Stud stallion had two of the eight winners, a Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained colt by the name of King Kirk and a filly called O' Ole who is in the care of Bjorn Baker.
O' Ole led all the way to win the third fillies' 850-metre trial in 49.11 seconds – the equal fastest of the day – which had Baker brimming ahead of Saturday week's $250,000 Group 3 Gimcrack Stakes (1000m).
"She's been a very professional filly, straight-forward since we had her – she just eats, sleeps and works," Baker said.
"I think even today there's probably fair bit of improvement in terms of fitness – the 850 was definitely the furthest she's been – so I'd like to get her to the Gimcrack and I think this will really bring her on."
O' Ole was a $325,000 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale buy for Baker and Jim Clarke.
She is out of the Sepoy mare Vellor, who is a daughter of three-time Group 2 winner and Flight Stakes placegetter Hosannah.
King Kirk is a chestnut colt out of the Nicconi mare Oxford Angel and cost $300,000 at the Gold Coast in January.
Like O' Ole, King Kirk was ridden by Rachel King and travelled boldly behind the leader rounding the turn before letting down impressively in the straight to score by half-a-length in 49.57secs.
"It's not easy for a two-year-old to trial in the manner in which he did, he was very professional, he took a nice trail in behind them and travelled well, took some tight gaps up the running and looked like he'd done it 10 times before," Bott said.
"It's always very encouraging to see them trial in that manner and have that versatility, which they need going to the races."
The Ole Kirk pair was among three trial winners by first-season sires, the other being King Kirk's stablemate North England, who scored a slick all-the-way 2-1/2-length win in 49.43secs Trial 7.
North England is a colt by Farnan, who Bott and Waterhouse trained to win the Golden Slipper, out of the Lope De Vega mare Our Belisa and cost $280,000 at Inglis Classic.
Bott and Waterhouse's other winner at Monday's session was Zoustar colt Tuscany, a brother to Schwarz, who won Trial 1 in 49.11secs.
The $1.55m Gold Coast yearling was the most expensive yearling of the eight trial winners.
The other colts and geldings trial was won by Peter Snowden's $150,000 Inglis Classic Cosmic Force colt Raging Force, who won by half-a-length in 49.44secs.
Snowden also won the first fillies' trial, with $350,000 Capitalist filly Memo, while the other winners were O' Ole's stablemate Strada Varenna, a daughter of Street Boss who cost $100,000, and Ciaron Maher-trained $300,000 Gold Coast yearling Icarian Dream, who is by Blue Point.
