Trainer Alan Bailey and jockey Glen Colless could be back on the country Cups campaign with gutsy stayer Frozone.Bailey's worst fears with Frozone were realised when the gelding went down by a nose to Lake George in the Next Byte Open Handicap (1630m) at Doomben on Saturday.Bailey had grave reservations before the race that Frozone could notch up win number eight after the stayer was asked to carry equal topweight of 58 kilograms."I can't be disappointed with the run. He only got beaten a nose,"

Trainer Alan Bailey and jockey Glen Colless could be back on the country Cups campaign with gutsy stayer Frozone.

Bailey's worst fears with Frozone were realised when the gelding went down by a nose to Lake George in the Next Byte Open Handicap (1630m) at Doomben on Saturday.

Bailey had grave reservations before the race that Frozone could notch up win number eight after the stayer was asked to carry equal topweight of 58 kilograms.

"I can't be disappointed with the run. He only got beaten a nose," Bailey said.

"It was just the big weight that told in the end.

"Wait until you see him down in the weights around 55 kilos, that's when he'll shine."

Bailey and Colless won the Coffs Harbour Cup last week with Brave The Way and will return interstate for the Listed Wyong Gold Cup (2100m) on September 2 with Frozone.

The Group Three Newcastle Cup (2300m) on September 14 and Group One Metropolitan (2400m) at Randwick on October 1 also could be on Frozone's agenda.

"I'll wait and see about the other races but he'll probably start off down there at Wyong," Bailey said.

Meanwhile premier trainer Rob Heathcote landed a winning double on the first Saturday of the new racing season with Solzhenitsyn and Tomboy.

Heathcote has decided against adding the pair to his Melbourne spring team and both will head to the paddock this week.

Heathcote is keen to target the Doomben summer series with Solzhenitsyn following the gelding's neck win over Eastline in the Micropower Integrated Business Solutions Handicap (1350m).

"I've said all along Solzhenitsyn was a serious racehorse but he'll go to the paddock now and come back for the summer series at Doomben," Heathcote said.

"I still feel he's been racing short of his best distance.

Tomboy recorded her fifth win from 10 starts when she beat River Perfume by 2-1/4 lengths in the Savills Industrial Property Handicap (1630m).

"That was the real Tomboy you saw win on Saturday," Heathcote said.

"She had no luck at Eagle Farm start and it was a big effort jumping to 1600 metres and to win so easily.

"She's out of a Jeune mare and the staying lines are coming through so I think she'll run 2000 metre even though she's by Murphy's Blue Boy."