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Freedman hoping to carry sales-ring success over to Queensland with stakes quintet

Off the back of another big week at the yearling sales, Randwick-based trainer Michael Freedman will make the journey to Queensland on Saturday with a quintet of big hopes in stakes races across the Eagle Farm card. Freedman teamed up with bloodstock agent Andy Williams to secure a filly for $580,000, while also going to... Read More

Freedman extends his Extreme shopping spree

Michael Freedman continued his Extreme Choice (Not A Single Doubt) spending spree on the final day of the Magic Millions Gold Coast National Yearling Sale when the trainer partnered with Darby Racing and Andrew Williams Bloodstock to purchase the Newgate sensation’s bay colt for $400,000. Fresh from his Group 2 success with Berzelius over the... Read More

Lope De Vega colt tops the charts on opening day

The principle of supply and demand ultimately determines the value of any product, and so it was of no great surprise that the only lots by Lope De Vega (Shamardal), Extreme Choice (Not A Single Doubt) and I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) on offer on the opening day of the Magic Millions Gold Coast National... Read More

Stradbroke to follow for Regal Award after Fred Best success

Highly rated punters’ headache Regal Award (Ole Kirk) became his young sire’s seventh stakes winner and capped a major day for trainer Phillip Stokes and jockey Lachie Neindorf in taking Saturday’s Fred Best Classic (Gr 3, 1400m) at Eagle Farm. A total of 35 minutes after claiming the Lord Mayor’s Cup (Gr 3, 1800m) with... Read More

Headley Grange hits the big time with Kingsford-Smith victory

Redoubtable gelding Headley Grange (Exosphere) took his role as an Inglis Digital poster boy to stunning new heights when he became an elite and weight-for-age winner in Saturday’s Kingsford-Smith Cup (Gr 1, 1300m) at Eagle Farm. Trained by a master of second-hand horses in Joe Pride and well ridden by quiet achiever Adam Hyeronimus, Headley... Read More

JJ Atkins next on the agenda for Berzelius following rousing Sires’ Produce win

Australia’s highest-priced stallion Extreme Choice (Not A Single Doubt) racked up stakes winner number 19 when longshot colt Berzelius defied a betting drift to lift Queensland’s Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 2, 1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday. A $340,000 purchase at Magic Millions Gold Coast for trainer Michael Freedman, Michael Wallace and Kia Ora Stud,... Read More