Erik The Red colt King Harald was backed on debut and won well under Gavin Lerena for the Roy Magner yard. (JC Photos).
Varsfontein Stud’s Erik The Red leads the freshman sire standings with three winners of three races, although he has already had 15 individual runners.
DeclarationOfPeace has only had three runners, but already has two winners.
Hawwaam has had two runners and one winner.
It should be an intriguing race for the honour.
The leading two-year-old sire so far this season is Querari, who has had five winners of seven races.
Both What A Winter and Master of My Fate have had four winners apiece.
Below shows the two-year-old stats so far this season:
* denotes stallions that are deceased
** denotes stallions standing overseas