Lee Freedman

On 19 June 2007 he won the prestigious King's Stand Stakes at the United Kingdom's Royal Ascot racecourse with his champion mare, Miss Andretti.

His son Allan, Lee Freedman's grandfather, was an electrical engineer who came to Australia in 1927, meeting his future wife Maudie McLachlan on board the ship.

[2] Lee Freedman gained an interest in racing at a young age when his father Tony took up horse breeding and training after retiring as a property developer.

Educated at The Scots College in Sydney,[1] Freedman studied at Australian National University for a year, but was quickly bored and dropped out to become involved in the breeding industry himself, running the stud farm owned by the family, near Yass in Southern New South Wales.

Freedman quickly tired of this, and decided to branch out on his own as a horse trainer, initially setting up stables at Warwick Farm in Sydney.

Freedman also won an unprecedented four consecutive Golden Slippers, Australia's premier Two Year Old race between 1993 and 1996, with Bint Marscay, Danzero, Flying Spur, and Merlene.

Another scandal to hit Freedman involved his outstanding three-year-old, Encosta De Lago, before the Bill Stutt Stakes at Moonee Valley in September 1996.

The Encosta De Lago affair happened to coincide with a decline in the stable's fortunes, although the main reason is more likely the unsuccessful move to Caulfield Racecourse, from Flemington.

After the 2000 Melbourne Cup Carnival, during which the stable won only one listed race, Freedman decided to radically change his training set-up.

This resurgence has been best symbolised by outstanding fillies Alinghi and Special Harmony, classy stayer Mummify, and champion mare Makybe Diva.

During the 2000s Freedman was regarded as Victoria's premier horse trainer, and along with Bart Cummings, Gai Waterhouse, David A. Hayes and John Hawkes, among Australia's best.

In the 2006–7 season the Freedman-trained sprinter Miss Andretti won four G1 races (the Manikato, Lightning and Australia Stakes and the Newmarket Handicap) and placed in two others.

During this period, Michael Freedman moved to Singapore and Anthony departed Markdel, transferring his training operation to Flemington.

In November 2014 Freedman announced he was returning to training, in partnership with Anthony,[8] with stables at Flemington and Pinecliff, on the Mornington Peninsula.