Lee Freedman and his agents were active at the Tattersalls HIT Sale late last month and they continued spending last week.  Doctor Freemantle and Above Average were both bought in private deals that will see them aimed at the 2010 Melbourne Carnival.  

“This year we specifically went out to look for a better quality animal and are delighted to have secured a horse of the quality of Doctor Freemantle,” Badgers Bloodstock manager Tom Pritchard-Gordon said.  “I bought six for them last year and they have won seven races.”

Doctor Fremantle (Sadler´s Wells) won this year’s Princess of Wales’ Stakes at Newmarket and beat English Oaks winner Look Here in the G3 Arc Trial at Newbury at his next start.  

Above Average (3c High Chaparral – Crystal Valkyrie by Danehill) was a G3 winner of the Classic Trial at Sandown in April.  He is by a sire whose been on fire at the spring carnival and his dam comes from the family of high-class sprinter Iktamal, tracing to top-class filly Rose Bowl.

Freedman and his Ball & Chain Syndicate paid 210,000gns (AUD 398,550) for Fanjura at Tattersalls.  The former Barry Hills trained gelding scored a hat-trick of wins up to 2000m this year at Sandown (2) and Royal Ascot.

Fanjura (4g Marju – Accelerating by Lear Fan) is an Irish bred gelding and he also finished third in a Goodwood Listed event last month.  
Among Freedman’s buys last year was Speed Gifted who won the G1 Metropolitan at Randwick on the way to the Melbourne Cup.  Unfortunately the Montjeu gelding, another previously prepared by Hills, went amiss last month and won’t return until the autumn.