'We just went back and had a look at him and the more we looked at him, the more the old man could see there was something there,' Sam Freedman told Racenet this week.
Thankfully, Anthony decided to go back and have a second look at the yearling colt.
Whatever happens, the four-year-old owes them nothing, having taken them on an extraordinary ride since he was passed at the 2020 Magic Millions Sales.įreedman and his father Anthony had the son of first-season sire Flying Artie short-listed in their catalogue, but like everyone else in the Gold Coast auditorium that January day, they let him go through the ring without having passed his $120,000 reserve price.
He's the $120,000 yearling who transformed into the $25m stallion-in-waiting and for co-trainer Sam Freedman he's the horse he will never forget.Īrtorius, the horse that delivered Freedman's maiden Group 1 in the 2021 Blue Diamond and changed the lives of his ownership group in the space of only 16 starts, will have his racing swan song in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot early on Sunday morning.
