A brilliant early two year-old that won the 2014 Magic Millions 2YO Classic, Unencumbered fired up with his first two year-old trial winner with a fast finishing win at Gosford on Tuesday for well named colt Swoop.

It's often a hard slog to make a shuttle sire work in this country and for many, a season or two is all we see of them, and two that have fallen into that category are Camelot (GB) and Declaration of War (USA), who have both made a promising start in the Northern Hemisphere this year where their oldest progeny are two year-olds.

Dual Group I winner Zoustar is well fancied to emulate the success of his sire Northern Meteor, who was the Champion First Season Sire of his generation.