A Sweet first for Bryan Guy at Toowoomba

Horse trainer Bryan Guy
Bryan Guy has broken the duck at Toowoomba.

Trainer Bryan Guy confirmed his theory that it is never too late to have a first in racing when Sweet Adaline won at Toowoomba.

A multiple Group One-winning trainer who won the Brisbane trainers’ premiership in 2006-07, Guy had never won a race at Toowoomba.

“I moved up from Rosehill to train at the Gold Coast 20 years ago and I have had about 700 winners since but none up here,” Guy said.

“In fact I haven’t been to Toowoomba in eight years. The boys were joking I might have got lost.”

Sweet Adaline ($4.40) made it two wins in a row when she beat Brains ($3.80) by a head.

“She was originally trained by Chris Waller in Sydney and Basil Nolan bought her at a broodmare sale,” Guy said.

“She is by Lonhro and has already been second in three Saturday-class races. Today was a metropolitan standard race and we will chase more city wins in a Class 3 Plate in two weeks.”

Trainer Tony Gollan had the second placegetters in the first two races but got his 100th overall winner for the season when Red Phantom ($1.80) scored as favourite over 2000m.

“I have had something like 120 seconds for the season and a lot of them by small margins but that’s the way it goes,” he said.

Red Phantom is entered for the Group One Queensland Derby on June 9 and Gollan isn’t sure which path to take.

“We can go to the Rough Habit Plate or the other option is a midweek race over 2200 metres and then the Grand Prix Stakes,” he said.

Gollan got a double and jockey Jim Byrne a treble when Unlikely Story ($1.80) won a maiden (1100m).

“He had about two years off because as a two year old we were getting him ready for the Karaka Millions in New Zealand but he did a sesamoid bone and needed plenty of time and rehab,” Gollan said.

“I am sure he can be a Saturday horse later this winter.”

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