Brenton Primmer landed his first metropolitan winner as a trainer when Orientaped won at Sandown.
The former promising apprentice was badly injured in a race fall at Warrnambool in September 2006.
He suffered serious brain injuries and neck fractures in the fall and was in a coma for two months.
He was on life support at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne and things looked grim when the machine was turned off but he continued breathing.
After a long, slow recovery, which included him learning to speak with the help of professional coaching, Primmer is now a co-trainer of a small team of three horses with his father Mark at Wangoom near Warrnambool.
Primmer, 21, won his first race as a trainer when Orientaped won at the May carnival at Warrnambool.
On Wednesday, with Mark Primmer on holiday in Vanuatu, a delighted Brenton Primmer was at Sandown for the win in the speedsafe.com Plate (1600m).
“This is an indescribable feeling,” he said.
Orientaped also gave apprentice Daniel Malouf his first city winner.
Malouf, who also won on the Orientate five-year-old last start at Warrnambool, is apprenticed to Caulfield trainer Jim Mason but is currently on loan to Colac trainer Daryl Cannon.
Sent out at $10, Orientaped swept home out wide on the track in the heavy (10) going to score a narrow win over Fieldmaster with Banri Maeve third.
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