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Street Boss colt wins first Victorian 2YO trial of the season.

Anthony and Sam Freedman have proven a formidable force with Godolphin two-year-olds in recent years and the father/son training duo unveiled another precocious type at Cranbourne on Monday.

Eject was a dominant winner of Victoria's first two-year-old trial of the season.

A son of Anamoe's sire Street Boss, Eject was tardy away but mustered quickly to sit outside the leader before taking over around 200m from home and surging away to score a soft 2-3/4-length win under Daniel Moor in the 800-metre workout.

Eject is the third foal from the Lonhro mare Banish, who won four of 13 starts including the Group 2 Moonee Valley Fillies Classic (1600m) in 2017.

Her first to race was Exile(Fastnet Rock), who broke her maiden at her fifth start at her most recent appearance, at Kyneton in May this year, the same month that second foal Elba (Fastnet Rock) had what has proven her only start to date, a second in a Sunshine Coast maiden.

Elba is also trained by the Freedmans, who have prepared Lyre and Daumier to win the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes for Godolphin in recent years.

Eject defeated the Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman-trained Shalaa colt Alaa Plenty in Monday's trial with Tony and Calvin McEvoy's Vancouver colt Wats Normal third, three-quarters-of-a-length behind the runner-up.

Wats Normal was one of four McEvoy-trained runners in the trial, the others including fifth placegetter Dublin Down, who is by first-season sire Exceedance, while Microphone was the other freshman sire represented, by the Matt Cumani-trained Winehouse (last).