Muswellbrook jockey Sammie Clenton hopes back-to-back Saturday metropolitan wins is a sign of things to come.
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Clenton steered the Kris Lees-trained Itz Lily to victory on June 8 at Randwick for her first Saturday city winner since returning to race riding in March.
The 26-year-old was out for than more than two years after a severe back injury from a second serious race fall. She also became a first-time mother during her time away.
The two-kilogram claiming apprentice backed up the breakthrough win with victory on Nicci's Gold for Warwick Farm trainer Gary Portelli at Rosehill on Saturday.
Clenton settled Nicci's Gold on the fence at the back of the field and found an ideal run through the pack to narrowly claim the 1500-metre benchmark 78 for fillies and mares.
It was her 36th career winner in town and 24th anywhere since her comeback. She hoped it would help her get even more opportunities in Sydney.
"It will help me kick on down there," Clenton said on Sunday.
"Kris has obviously been good. He's supported me well and even put me on without a claim. It's support you obviously need.
"It's been a long road back but it's starting to snowball.
"It's easy in the country but it's a bit different down there in Sydney with obviously the elite riders in the state.
"Gary has been wonderful, too.
"I felt like I owed him that winner yesterday. He's supported me so much since I've been back and they've all been running really good races without winning, so that one yesterday helps."
Clenton, who is riding as low as 56kg but was close to 55kg on Saturday, backed up for a winning double on Sunday at Muswellbrook's Aberdeen Cup meeting.
She rode the Jason Deamer-trained Star Alibi to victory before winning for another Newcastle trainer, David Atkins, aboard Kulnura.
Scone trainer Brett Cavanough claimed the Shorty Cribb Aberdeen Cup with Star Boy as part of a double after Boom Gate won a race earlier.
Peter and Paul Snowden took out the Greg Cribb Memorial for two-year-olds with Yitai Synergy.
AAP reports Saturday: Jenny Duggan and Samantha Clenton have created history at Rosehill, the pair becoming the first mothers to win Saturday metropolitan races on the same program in Sydney.
Both are mature-age apprentices whose careers have been interrupted firstly by injury, then by parenthood.
Duggan won on the Jason Coyle-trained River Bird on Saturday while Clenton was successful on Nicci's Gold for trainer Gary Portelli.
Duggan and husband Ben already had eldest child Maddi when she was riding at her peak and after suffering a serious leg injury in 2014, she has added two sons to her brood.
She returned to riding last year and recently claimed the Rising Star series for NSW apprentices.
Clenton suffered crushed vertebrae in a fall at Scone in October 2016 and was told she was lucky to be walking.
As she was recovering she and her partner Tim welcomed Isaac.
Clenton is indentured to Kris Lees at Newcastle and gets up at 2.30am to travel from Muswellbrook for trackwork.
Duggan had to be patient to get River Bird home after being caught in some traffic.
"Jason had her cherry ripe but I needed the splits to come and she toughed it out," Duggan said.
"It's not bad riding a Saturday winner in town."
Clenton said Nicci's Gold had taken natural improvement from her first-up fifth two weeks ago.
"She probably got further back than I actually wanted to be, she got a bit of trouble early, but we got all the right runs and got on the good path to be too good in the end," she said.
