Michael Freedman's promising filly Apocalyptic is set to make her debut at Randwick on Saturday, facing stiff competition including Magic Millions Classic favourite Memo. Freedman, already enjoying a stellar season, is hopeful Apocalyptic can showcase her potential and emerge as a contender for the autumn two-year-old races.
Not even five months into the season, Randwick trainer Michael Freedman has nearly as many winners in town as his total for the entire 2023-24 campaign. And while Freedman is not interested in parlaying his success into a bigger team, he is focused on kicking more goals with his exciting group of young talent.
He will debut his latest tyro, Apocalyptic, on Saturday in a stacked 1100m two-year-olds race on Saturday at Randwick, where his Wootton Bassett colt, Pallaton, blitzed rivals last week to stamp himself as a Golden Slipper contender. Like Pallaton, Apocalyptic has won and gone close in two trials leading into a debut, and Freedman is keen to see her perform against Magic Millions Classic favourite Memo and others preparing for the $3 million race on the Gold Coast on January 11. “She’s obviously not as experienced as some of her opposition there on Saturday, but she’s a filly that’s kept improving in her prep, so it will be interesting to see how she measures up against them,” Freedman said of the $7 Sportsbet hope. “Then we can map out a bit of a plan.” Off her trials, the $400,000 Magic Millions yearling was a $21 chance for the Classic, but Freedman was not intent on qualifying. The Freedman brothers - trainer Lee, Anthony, Michael and Richard - after Subzero won the Melbourne Cup in 1992.“I’m not that fussed either way,” he said. “If she happened to be able to do that, then we’d give it some consideration, but I’m not necessarily sure she’s the ideal type for a race like that, around a relatively tight turning circuit. “She’s got a nice turn of foot, and she’s a lovely, scopey type of filly ... Hopefully, she can put her hand up as an autumn type of two-year-old.”Pallaton’s debut victory continued a stellar season for Freedman, who had 31 winners in NSW before Thursday at a strike rate of 24.2 per cent. His metropolitan numbers are even better – 18 wins at 24.7 per cen
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