 In 2017/8 Shoals won four Group 1 races including the Thousand Guineas and Myer Classic in Victoria and the Surround Stakes in Sydney.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.