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<\/p>\n\u201cTrials can be a little bit misleading sometimes in that respect, but he looks to be reasonably comfortable on it, so I think if it got back into the soft range on Saturday, it would be OK,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Pallaton is a $2.50 favourite with Sportsbet from gate one with usual rider Tommy Berry aboard.<\/p>\n
Marhoona, meanwhile, is set to trial for the first time this preparation on Tuesday at Randwick.<\/p>\n
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Jockey Tommy Berry and trainer Michael Freedman after Pallaton\u2019s debut win in December.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this stage, we\u2019ll look at kicking off in the Furious Stakes here, or possibly the Moir in Victoria,\u201d Freedman said.<\/p>\n
Like Pallaton, Apocalyptic made an early impression as a two-year-old, flashing home for second at Randwick on debut, before setbacks. She returned with an eye-catching trial at Warwick Farm last week.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe had a foot abscess, which took a fair while to resolve, and you can\u2019t miss too much with two-year-olds in the autumn,\u201d Freedman said of her one-run first campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe had a nice break, and she\u2019s come back bigger and stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n
The returns come amid an exciting time for Freedman\u2019s operation, which has expanded to include a Gold Coast stable managed by his brother, hall of fame trainer Lee.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m leaving Lee to do his thing with them up there \u2013 that\u2019s the beauty of having him there. I wouldn\u2019t be doing it otherwise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just trying to identify horses who might be slightly better suited there. It takes a bit of time to bed those things down, but it\u2019s nice to have Lee involved, and hopefully we can have some success up there in the years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
Freedman was also among those to receive horses from Godolphin under its new public training operation. Ohope got the new connection off to a winning start on Tuesday at Hawkesbury, and Polyglot ($4.60 favourite) could add to that at Rosehill in the ninth, although Freedman was unsure about him resuming from gate 13.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a lovely horse, and I\u2019ve been very happy with him,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ll just be taking him through his grades. Whether that kicks off on Saturday or we have a rethink, we\u2019ll work that out.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve given me some nice yearlings. They obviously have good pedigrees, so it\u2019s nice to be in the mix with them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ninja, an odds-on favourite in the third, is another strong chance for Freedman at Rosehill. He won by 11 lengths at Kembla at his second start.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHe obviously got through the heavy ground at Kembla all right, and I think he appreciated getting onto a bigger track,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe got into a nice rhythm in only a four-horse field on a heavy track, so keeping it in context, the margin is probably insignificant really. But he looks like a nice, progressive horse, and he should appreciate the 1300 on a track like Rosehill.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bunker Hut, an $8 shot in the last, was his other runner. The race, and the third, were boosted to $200,000 after last week\u2019s washout at Randwick.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate they changed it from a benchmark 88 to a 94,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s made it a tougher assignment, but I\u2019m very happy with him, he\u2019s going very well and he\u2019s drawn a nice gate to get a soft run.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTrials can be a little bit misleading sometimes in that respect, but he looks to be reasonably comfortable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-65836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}