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. In June 2007 Miss Andretti won the G2 King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot, in course record time. Following a decline in success for Freedman Brothers, Lee Freedman retired from training in August, 2011. He later admitted the strain of failure had impacted heavily on his personal life. Lee's brothers Anthony and Michael took over training duties at Markdel. Over the ensuing three years, Freedman held various positions in the racing industry including director of racing for Lloyd Williams's Macedon Lodge, a training partnership with Sydney-based Graeme Rogerson and an advisor to Sir Peter Vela's Pencarrow Stud in New Zealand. 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, with stables at Flemington and Pinecliff, on the Mornington Peninsula. The pair's most successful horses in this period were sprinters Shoals and Santa Ana Lane. In 2017/8 Shoals won three Group 1 races including the Myer Classic in Victoria and the Surround Stakes in Sydney. Santa Ana Lane won five Group 1 races, including South Australia's premier race The Goodwood and Brisbane's premier sprint The Stradbroke Hcp within 3 weeks of each other in 2018. In mid-2017 Freedman moved to Singapore to train horses there, taking over the stables of New Zealand-born Laurie Laxon. Lee trained the winner of the 2018 Group 1 Singapore Guineas, Mr. Clint. Partly due to COVID-19 and its effects on Singapore racing, Freedman announced his plan to return to Australia in late 2020. He will be based at the Gold Coast. Freedman has two daughters, Emma and Georgia, with his ex-wife Janelle. Emma, is a radio and television presenter, best known as host of Wide World of Sports, and a former weather presenter for the Nine Network in Australia. Currently, she is a presenter on Foxtel's Fox League channel. References Hutchison, Garrie. They're racing! The complete story of Australian racing.(1999) Lee Freedman article at The Age Company Ltd. Australasian Turf Monthly 2005 article on Lee freedman External links Freedman Brothers 1956 births Living people Horse trainers from Melbourne Australian Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame inductees People educated at Scots College (Sydney) Australian people of Russian-Jewish descent