Racing icon Freedman returns to training

Tuesday 18 November 2014, 4:52pm

LEE FREEDMAN'S TRAINING CAREER

* Inducted into the Australian Racing Hall Of Fame in 2003

* 124 Group One wins, including five Melbourne Cups, four Caulfield Cups, four Golden Slippers and two Cox Plates

* Trained winners of the Melbourne Cup, Cox Plate and Caulfield Cup in 1992

* In 1989 Melbourne Cup trained winner Tawriffic and runner-up Super Impose

* Trained Makybe Diva to her unprecedented third successive Melbourne Cup in 2005

* Suspended for four months in 1995 for substituting a horse in a barrier trial

* Won seven Victorian metropolitan premierships

* First trainer with more than 100 Melbourne winners (115) in a season 2005-2006

* Retired from training in 2011, handing over his string of horses to youngest brother Anthony

* Went into a training partnership with Graeme Rogerson at Randwick before calling it quits in December, 2012

* Joined Lloyd Williams's Macedon Lodge as racing director in 2013

– AAP

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