Two weeks ago, Armidale-based Kinjina hit the front to snare her first win for the year for trainer Ned Coldbeck.
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On Friday, the four-year-old mare was at her best again, proving too good for rivals in Walcha on Cup day.
Guided by jockey Luke Rolls, Kinjina rocketed out of barrier one in the 1200 metre Handicap and surged to the front of the pack.
Rolls guided her on the inside the whole way around the tight, Walcha racetrack to beat Colt Prosser's Bonnie Joy in the Class 2 race.
The win makes it the second on-the-trot, and third of her career, for the chestnut with a victory in Armidale two weeks ago, with Matt McGuren aboard for Coldbeck's first full TAB win in his career as a trainer.
In the main race of the day, Call Me Brad's unexpected, last-career purple patch has continued.
The eight-year-old produced a resounding win in the Walcha Cup over 1440m.
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Ridden by apprentice Yvette Lewis, the favourite led pretty much all the way - the fast-finishing Ross Stitt-trained Editors (Ben Looker) just coming up short in the $35,000 race.
The Stirling Osland-trained In Heart's Wake (Ashley Morgan) was third, just over a length behind the winner.
Call Me Brad's Tamworth trainer Lesley Jeffriess said the horse had been on "the retirement list".
"I think he heard me say that and he's grown another leg," she said.
It was Call Me Brad'a 10th win in 68 starts, but his fourth win in his past five starts.
He won back-to-back at Gunnedah late last year and then won at Armidale last month - the triumphs coming after he was freshened for six weeks. Lewis has piloted him to all those victories.
Jeffriess is constantly asked to explain the horse's form spike but said she had "no idea", then added: "He's struck form and is going good and has got a bit confidence under him."
Call Me Brad paid $3.10 for the win.
The day's racing started with Port Macquarie trainer Neil Godbolt snaring a win with Flying Mojo, Jeff Kehoe the jockey, in the Benchmark 58 over 1700m.
Rod Northam's Star Dreamer broke her maiden over 1440m with apprentice Reece Jones aboard.
Fellow apprentice jockey Dylan Gibbons then rode back-to-back winners.
The first came with Cody Morgan's Sunstone in the Class 1 Handicap before he rode Zach Hatch's Kensington Kid to a win in the Benchmark 58 over 1200m.
The highly-anticipated Ron Martin Maiden over 1000m with $32,000 in prizemoney was won by Cameron Crockett's Foxbreak with Jake Pracey-Holmes riding the first of his double.
In his first career start after four successful trials, the three-year-old Scone-based gelding won by a length-and-a-half in front front of Peter Dixon's Smart and Sassy.
Pracey-Holmes earned his second win in the final race, the 1000m Lightning Handicap, on Darren Egan's Bryan's Babe.
