Freedman’s double shot at The Everest

ANTHONY Freedman has flown under the radar with his success in the past year but in keeping with his low-key personality that’s something he’s happy about.

Tomorrow though at Randwick there’ll be no place for Freedman to hide if he can win the world’s richest race — the $13 million The Everest — with either Santa Ana Lane or Shoals.

And if he can do that, Freedman, pictured, won’t mind being centre stage.

And betting suggested this could definitely happen, with Shoals at $7 and Santa Ana Lane at $9 with last year’s winner Redzel heading the market at $6.50.

The Freedman representatives are the pair which netted the trainer six Group 1 races from his stable of 50 with each winning three major races.

Santa Ana Lane claimed the 2017 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes and the Goodwood and the Stradbroke Handicap this year.

Shoals won the 2017 Myer Classic and the Surround Stakes and Sangster Stakes this year. That pair quinealled the Group 2 Premiere Stakes at their last starts with Santa Ana Lane defeating Shoals at Randwick, which was Sydney’s final lead-in sprint to The Everest.

Freedman said he was very happy with both horses who had had a good couple of weeks in Sydney.

“A heavy track will suit Shoals who is very good in the going while Santa Ana Lane is OK in it,” Freedman said.

While Shoals showed above average ability from the start of her career, Santa Ana Lane didn’t hit his peak until he was a five-year-old.

“He’d always shown Group 1 ability and I always thought he’d be a Group 1 horse but he had issues and he couldn’t put it all together,” he said.