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Star Tasmania mare Lady Lynette has earned a reprieve from a breeding career and has returned to training under the care of the newly formed Graeme Rogerson/Lee Freedman partnership.

Lady Lynette was expected to be retired when she was sold to leading owner and breeding Gerry Harvey for $270,000 at the Easter Broodmare Sale in Sydney last month.

However Harvey has decided to give Rogerson and Freedman the chance to add more black type to Lady Lynette's excellent career record before she starts breeding duties.

Freedman said Lady Lynette was a great acquisition to the Randwick stable.

“We've got 22 in work at present and Lady Lynette is the highest rated horse in the yard. She is definitely a great addition to the stable,” Freedman said.

“She only had two weeks off after her last run at Moonee Valley. We'll just look for suitable races for her,” he said.

Lady Lynette had her last start for her former Tasmanian trainers David and Scott Brunton at Moonee Valley where she was controversially relegated to second place on protest.

Lady Lynette is the first Tasmanian-trained mare to earn over $1 million in prize money.

The seven-year-old mare has started 49 times for 14 wins and 18 minor placings for stakes of $1,346,633.

Meanwhile Triple Asset, Tasmania's star two-year-old of last season, may have run her last race.

She has been entered for the Magic Millions broodmare sale on the Gold Coast later this month.

"It's a business decision - we'll put a decent reserve on her and see what happens," said her trainer and part-owner John Keys.

"A buyer might decide to give her another go before putting her to stud or we might race her again ourselves if she is not sold."'

Triple Asset has spent the past three months spelling at the same Victorian property where Black Caviar takes her breaks from racing.

Triple Asset has earned $267,000 in just 12 starts. As a two-year-old she won the $50,000 Magic Millions Classic at Mowbray, the $150,000 Thoroughbred Breeders Classic at Flemington and $115,000 Janz Stakes at Morphettville.

She has raced only four times this season for unplaced efforts at Moonee Valley twice, Caulfield and Elwick.