about dream

OUR START

Dream Thoroughbreds was developed by a group of high school mates that grew up enjoying the thrill and excitement of horse racing.

They joined together to develop a syndicate of friends to own and race horses together. Win or lose they have enjoyed many fun filled days at the racetrack.

Their syndicate horses have progressed from country to city racetracks, where they again enjoyed and celebrated victories with family and friends.

Their Dream was to extend the fun and enjoyment to include a wider network of friends and race better quality horses with quality trainers for a low and manageable cost.

During the Spring of 2010 Dream Thoroughbreds was established as an incorporated entity, and developed a strategic partnership with the Freedman Brothers stable to select, buy and race thoroughbreds.

MISSION STATEMENT

To become Australia’s best syndicators at providing a fun, exciting and unique horse racing ownership experience that can be enjoyed with family and friends as we all ‘Live the Dream’ together.

DREAM THOROUGHBREDS
SOCIAL EVENTS

DREAM TRAINERS

Anthony & SAM Freedman,
needs no introduction!

Anthony is the third eldest of racing’s famous Freedman brothers. He has been in integral part of the vast Freedman Racing operation since the mid-1980 Late in 1992, Anthony pioneered the Freedman brothers’ first foray interstate, when he opened a stable at Randwick. In that first year in Sydney, Anthony (under Lee’s licence) prepared Bint Marscay to win the 1993 Group 1 Golden Slipper Stakes. Anthony, who has a keen eye for a yearling, selected and bought Naturalism as a yearling for only $35,000 and Mummify for $60,000.

Anthony trained his first official Group 1 winner when Mawingo won the 2012 Doomben Cup at Doomben.

Anthony has added 7 more Group 1 wins with Our Ivanhoe winning the 2017 Ranvet Stakes at Rosehill, the 2017 Myer Classic, 2018 Surround Stakes & 2018 Robert Sangster Stakes with Shoals, and he trained the quinella in the 2017 Rupert Clarke Stakes with Santa Ana Lane beating Mr Sneaky, and he recently won the 2018 Goodwood Handicap and 2018 Stadbroke Handicap with Santa Ana Lane. Anthony has a training base at Pinecliff in Mt Eliza. This training facility offers horses quieter surroundings, the opportunity to utilise day yards, stabling at night for protection and security, including grass and synthetic tracks for gallops.

The main training base is located at Flemington, where most horses are prepared for raceday.
With both environments, all horses are able to achieve their potential. Anthony’s achievements see him with 2 favoured runners in the 2018 Everest run on 13 October 2018.

Anthony Freedman Racing is professional, and they get results!

Ciaron Maher & David Eustace,
victoria's leading trainers!

Ciaron Maher first got involved in the racing industry as a teenager when he worked with a trainer after school each day. From there he started his jockey apprenticeship with Peter Hayes. He worked two years in Adelaide and two years in Melbourne. After finishing his apprenticeship, he worked for several trainers in Flemington. He travelled and worked in Ireland and England for a year. He returned to Australia before going to work for the United Arab Emirates in Dubai for six months. Ciaron returned to Warrnambool to set himself up as a trainer. By working with such a diverse range of trainers throughout the world, Ciaron had the grounding to establish himself in his own career path in training and he received his trainers license in 2005.

Ciaron is a passionate and involved trainer, with a keen eye for all his horses, a real horseman. Ciaron successes have included the Group 1 win by Tears I Cry at the VRC Emirates Stakes at Flemington in 2007, less than three years after becoming a trainer, and more recently he trained Skrikandi to win the 2015 Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap & Tatts Tiara, Set Square to win the 2014 VRC Oaks and Jameka to win the 2015 VRC Oaks, His recent Group 1 wins have been with Jameka winning the 2016 Caulfield Cup & 2017 BMW. The Ciaron Maher & David Eustace training partnership began on 1 August 2018 with outstanding results. Numerous winners and a determination to win the big Group 1s, have pushed them to the top and they now have the favourite for the 2019 Golden Slipper with Dubious the winner of the 2018 Breeders Stakes. Ciaron & David are now established as Victoria’s leading training partnership!

ASH & AMY YARGI, TRUE HORSE PEOPLE!

Amy Johnston (Yargi) is the daughter of Fran Houlahan and Brian Johnston and the Granddaughter of arguably the greatest trainer of jumpers Australia has ever known, Hall of Famer, Jim Houlahan.

Amy and her affinity with horses stretches beyond the nuances associated with training, having been immensely successful on the show jumping circuit as a child. A pony club regular from 4 years of age, by 12 Amy was a Victorian show jumping champion. By 15 she had earned selection in the Victorian Young Rider Show Jumping Squad, a team she was a part of for six years.

Amy also gained selection in International Young Rider Show Jumping teams and celebrated both individual and team success in New Zealand and England. But she was always destined to pursue a career as a trainer, a dream she got serious about at the age of 20 when she travelled to Europe for stints with Willy Jarvis at Newmarket and Michael Halford at The Curragh.

Ash worked at the Freedmans in at Markdel, at their Flemington stables and in most recent times, at Pinecliff in Mt Eliza. He has had the privilege of being involved with a metropolitan premiership and multiple group one winning team and has worked with some of the greatest horses to grace Australian turf.

Some of the wonderful horses Ash has had the pleasure of working with include Makybe Diva, Mummify, Alinghi, Special Harmony, Miss Andretti and in the most recent of times, Shoals and Santa Ana Lane whom collectively have won seven group one races.

Ash & Amy have now joined forces together raising a family, and developing a strong stable of horses with a strong strike rate with a hands on approach of training and getting the best out of their horses. Their stables are privately owned and based at Mornington Racecourse, and they a slowly building success as a team! 

richard & WILL freedman,
a golden partnership!

Richard Freedman is well known for his success with the Freedman brothers in the 80s and 90s. the second oldest brother behind his older brother – Australian Racing Hall of Famer Lee Freedman.

During their 20-year training partnership, the Freedman stable was one of Australia’s most prominent preparing over 100 Group 1 winners, including the Melbourne Cup on five occasions, as well as four consecutive Golden Slipper winners.

Richard Freedman’s history as a trainer stretches back to the ‘70s when he trained his first winner at Canberra at age 18 years old – at the time believed to be the youngest ever professional trainer to train a winner in Australian Racing history.

After 15 successful years covering racing and professional sport, Richard returned to the training ranks in 2017.Richard now oversees the Rosehill stables of Freedman Training.

He was joined by his son William Freedman, who has trained in his own right at Scone, in a training partnership that add experience and youthfulness to the training partnership.

They have quickly developed themselves into the top 10 trainers within the Sydney training ranks with training facilities at Rosehill and now Hawkesbury.

DREAM_Tony-Gollan

TONY GOLLAN, THE KING OF QLD!

Tony as a teenager had close ties to the stable run by his father Darryl and he was a keen follower of form often attending Clifford Park races.
Despite some words of warning from his dad Tony took out a trainer’s licence when he was 20. He had a team of four horses and the confidence of youth.
His first winner was Carbon Shadow at Clifford Park. He secured his first metropolitan winner with Nova Serrure. At that time Tony, aged 22, let his natural ambitious instincts rule his head. He set up a stable in Brisbane. He enjoyed some early success and soon had a stable of 14 horses but it was shortlived.
Tony headed back to Toowoomba and renewed his close ties to Darryl. He spent the next year soaking up knowledge from Darryl and legendary trainer Jim Atkins. It was an invaluable learning curve.
Tony revived his own training business in 2003. A stroke of good fortune gave his return some early momentum. Eureka Stud father-son combination Colin and Scott McAlpine gave him a Special Dane filly which they named Temple Spirit. The filly was a great success on the track, winning eight races. Temple Spirit became the Dam of Spirit Of Boom and Temple Of Boom, who gave him tremendous success. Spirit of Boom took him to Group 1 success in the 2014 William Reid Stakes & 2014 Doomben 10,000.
Tony Gollan continues to exceed in Brisbane at his base in Eagle Farm He continually notches up winners, and has won the last 8 Metropolitan Trainers Premierships by big margins.
His base at Eagle Farm is state of the art, and with the much anticipated re-opening of Eagle Farm racetrack, Tony has all the facilities to match it with his eastern counterparts.
Tony is the Dream trainer you need to build our Queensland partnership!

HALL OF FAMER, LEE FREEDMAN!

Lee is a Hall of Fame trainer and the oldest brother of the Freedman Brothers Dynasty of Racing.

Throughout his illustrious career, Lee has trained nearly 4,000 winners, 128 Group 1 winners and more than 300 Group winners. Five Melbourne Cups, four Caulfield Cups, four Golden Slippers, and two Cox Plates, as well as 12 Derbies and 10 Oaks, both with his brothers and on his own.

His first ever winner, Blockade, was actually achieved on the Gold Coast in 1983.

Adding to his immense tour de force, Lee has attained seven Melbourne Premierships and more recently a Singapore Premiership was added to his books in 2018. 

Lee now returns to Australia to train at the Gold Coast training centre. The Gold Coast turf club plans to revamp their track and stabling, as well as introduce night racing in 2022. 

Lee wants to be a part of those exciting plans, and he will quickly make an impact on the Queensland racing scene. 

It won’t be long before the Lee Freedman adds to his Group 1 collection!

Richard & chantelle jolly,
making huge strides!

Richard & Chantelle Jolly are the leading trainers of South Australia based at Morphetville, but they are making huge strides nationally.

Richard is an excellent horseman and understands how to place his horses to win in the right grade, maintaining an excellent strike rate of winners to runners.

Chantelle adds that fire to the partnership, youth and enthusiam which helps drive the training partnership to be better and that has resulted in lots of success!

They are quickly becoming a training partnership well known for his interstate raids, and they continue to dominate the South Australian training ranks.

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