ONE horse is racing for a $1.23 million prize and the other for just $75,000, but victories in different states by imports Speed Gifted and Fanjura today would be equally as crucial as far as a tilt at a sixth Melbourne Cup win is concerned for trainer Lee Freedman, reports The Age.It says: At 2.25pm at Rosehill, Speed Gifted, who was sent from Europe to Freedman a year ago by his French owner, is widely tipped to take his second Australian group 1 race - the $2.25 million BMW over 2400 metres.A

ONE horse is racing for a $1.23 million prize and the other for just $75,000, but victories in different states by imports Speed Gifted and Fanjura today would be equally as crucial as far as a tilt at a sixth Melbourne Cup win is concerned for trainer Lee Freedman, reports The Age.

It says: At 2.25pm at Rosehill, Speed Gifted, who was sent from Europe to Freedman a year ago by his French owner, is widely tipped to take his second Australian group 1 race - the $2.25 million BMW over 2400 metres.

At Caulfield two hours later, the lesser known stablemate Fanjura must win and catch the eye of the handicapper to allow him his chance to race for the $6 million Melbourne Cup in November.

Fanjura, bought on behalf of Freedman clients for about $400,000 last October at the horses-in-training sale at Newmarket in England, has just one kilogram above the minimum weight in today's group 3 Easter Cup over 2000 metres.

With just a minor placing in a listed race next to his name in England, he needs to impress today to secure a weight that will get him into the major spring cup races.

After wins last week at Caulfield by fellow imported gallopers Savarain and Above Average, Freedman is expecting another promising run from Fanjura, who won at Caulfield on March 20.

''He's really come on since that race,'' Freedman said. ''He wasn't so flash a track worker before then, but having not raced for a while, I think that run really switched him on and his work has been brilliant this week.

''With his weight [54 kilograms] it's a chance for the horse to show himself up as a spring contender. Whatever he does, he'll go to the paddock and then be set for the spring but it would be nice sending him off a winner of a race like this.'