Group One ambitions for Bayrir will be kept in check this spring despite his obvious credentials.

The former French horse is due to have his second Australian start in Saturday's Listed Premier's Cup (1800m) at Rosehill, and, although he holds entries for the major races over the coming months, trainer Chris Waller will not rush him.

He is one of three nominations for the stable and the highest rated of a total 18 entries at 105.

Bayrir, a Group One winner in the United States, made an eye-catching debut for Waller on August 3 when second to stablemate Coup Ay Tee in the Listed Winter Challenge (1500m).

"He is a very athletic horse but we haven't set our sights on anything in the spring," Waller said.

"The autumn will be when he steps up.

"Dead-set he is my Ranvet - Queen Elizabeth horse next year."

Waller said Bayrir was still not used to his new feeding regime, something that can affect the imported horses with which the trainer has much experience.

"I don't get him to eat as much as I would like to give him a searching preparation," he said.

"That's something not everybody sees and with these overseas horses they go through the grades here and win because they are better than our horses.

"But it can take a while for them to eat up and get used to it here to take the step up to Group One class."

Waller's other entries are I'm Imposing and Lunayir.

Polish Knight, second to Ethiopia in the 2012 Australian Derby, is the second-highest ranked at 100 and comes into the race off an unlucky sixth to another Premier's Cup entry Honorius over 1400m at Rosehill.

The August 17 race was his first since he suffered a bleeding attack in the Metropolitan in October, incurring an automatic three-month ban.

Expensive import Michelangelo will represent the Gai Waterhouse stable. The five-year-old, who finished third behind Encke and Camelot in last year's English St Leger, has shown little in three barrier trials.