Promising filly Profoundly is backing up from her maiden Group win in search of an even more prestigious prize at the same track – not just for her but also for her trainer.

Former Kranji (2008-16) trainer Michael Freedman has put his name up in lights since leaving Singapore and Hong Kong and picking Sydney as his training base on his home soil.

Among his haul of seven Group 1 trophies, two Golden Slippers with Stay Inside (2021, in partnership with brother Richard) and Marhoona (2025) shine the brightest.

The world’s richest two-year-old race is not only one of the four coveted legs of Australian racing’s Grand Slam (others being the Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate), but to also win it twice only cements Freedman’s knack for juveniles, with now successful stallion and former Singapore champion 2YO Super One already on his CV.

But while Freedman also conquered the Singapore Three-Year-Old Challenge with Super Easy in 2012, it is a niche that has eluded the Australian handler in his own backyard, and on his own terms.

The 57-year-old will be hoping to tick that box off with Profoundly in the A$1 million (S$891,000) Group 1 Australian Oaks (2,400m) at Randwick on April 11, one week after the Farnan filly won the Group 3 Adrian Knox Stakes (2,000m) at the same venue on the opening day of The Championships last Saturday.

Interestingly, Freedman shared that success with his even more famous elder brother Lee, himself a Singapore champion trainer in 2018.

The Australian Hall of Fame trainer, who was on hand at Randwick as one of the part-owners, was the one who hand-picked Profoundly at the 2024 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale for only A$65,000.

At the time, Lee was training in his own right on the Gold Coast since leaving Singapore in 2021, albeit with moderate success in comparison to his golden years from the late 80s to the early 2000s, that included more than 120 Group 1s, highlighted by two (2004 and 2005) of the recently deceased champion mare Makybe Diva’s record three Melbourne Cups.