The Lee Freedman stable further enhanced its successful run with two-year-olds this season when Fearless Babe led throughout to upset the odds-on favourite Triumphant Choice at Sandown.Ridden by Craig Williams, replacing Dwayne Dunn who is under suspension until Friday, the Royal Academy filly started at $3.80 and, wearing blinkers for the first time, jumped well in Wednesday's Bill Duncan Hcp (1400m) and was never threatened.Triumphant Choice ($1.65), prepared by Michael, Wayne and John Hawkes,
The Lee Freedman stable further enhanced its successful run with two-year-olds this season when Fearless Babe led throughout to upset the odds-on favourite Triumphant Choice at Sandown.
Ridden by Craig Williams, replacing Dwayne Dunn who is under suspension until Friday, the Royal Academy filly started at $3.80 and, wearing blinkers for the first time, jumped well in Wednesday's Bill Duncan Hcp (1400m) and was never threatened.
Triumphant Choice ($1.65), prepared by Michael, Wayne and John Hawkes, had finished fifth to Rostova in the Group Two VRC Sires' Produce Stakes (1400m) at Flemington last month at his second race start.
The beautifully-bred Redoute's Choice colt, a half-brother to Cox Plate winner Savabeel, settled second in the small field of four runners for Damien Oliver.
But he wasn't able to reel in the leader, going down by 1-1/2 lengths with Love Attack ($5.50) 1-3/4 lengths away third.
"That was the plan, we wanted to go straight to the front and kick for home at the top of the straight," Freedman said.
"We knew she was fit and (wanted to) make the topweight kick very early with 58kg on his back.
"There's not much of her. She was bought by the great Adrian Nichol and she's done a good job."
The filly, out of the Gulch mare Tuscan Sky, was a $475,000 purchase at last year's Australian Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney.
Freedman said he had had around a dozen individual winners of about 18 races so far this season.
The four-time Golden Slipper winning trainer has had seven individual stakeswinners but won't have a runner in the world's richest two-year-old race at Rosehill on Saturday.
Freedman made it a double at the Hillside meeting when Brazen Hussey, ridden by Brad Rawiller, led all the way to win the Betfair Hcp (1300m).
"She's only a little pony. She's entered for the broodmare sale in Sydney in a fortnight but the owners might reconsider now," he said.
The Hussonet four-year-old, out of the Danehill mare Lady Danette, is raced by a group including managing part-owner Nick Columb.
The mare has won five and been placed in four of her 20 starts.
Freedman later made it a treble when Rock Home Late resumed to take out the Marwong Hcp (1300m), completing a winning double for Steven Arnold.