RINSE AND REPEAT FOR DAVIDA

If anyone thought it was a fluke at Cranbourne seven days prior, Davida took her front running tactics to a new level flying along daring her rivals to catch her at Geelong on Saturday. 

The Clinton McDonald-trained Ahha Ahha tried her best, but her lunging dive was too late and Davida bought up her second city win in seven days and third from past four starts.

Danny O'Brien's Racing Manager Jack Howard was full of praise for apprentice jockey following instructions perfectly as had apprentice Logan Bates the week before.

"I told him to just get the first 50 metres right out of the gates and then just let her go," Howard said from the winner's stall.

"I think we saw her in her maiden win at Echuca, we let her roll and she broke the field up, we did that last week and I think the obscure ones that one at Caulfield where she stumbled and that was race over.

"Today Jackson rated her perfectly, he's a really good upcoming apprentice, he does a cracking amount of work there at Flemington and it's really pleasing."

On the decision to back-up, Howard said the filly made it impossible for her not to run.

"The way she flew around the big sand at Flemington on Tuesday we had some real confidence coming here today.

"We thought the danger was Clinton McDonald's (Ahha Ahha) today, and for it to get over the top of us, it was probably going to be a fair way back and have to make the ground.  It nearly got us there, but it's great for Robert Anderson. He's a big breeder and a big supporter of our stables, so to get two metro winners in a week for this girl, it's pleasing and hopefully she can continue on."

Radley said he was thrilled to get the result aboard the filly.

"From her last run, she got to roll along at a high speed and just kept on rolling and today we sort of did the similar thing. Once I got a good breather between the eight (hundred) and the six I was happy to get back on my bike and get rolling and she toughed it out late," Radley said.

Howard said another crack at black-type racing was on the cards for the filly in her future off the strength of her consecutive metro wins.

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