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Memories of Kiwi champion Rough Habit were revived when his close relation Addictive Habit won at the Gold Coast last Saturday.

Addictive Habit, a son of Columbia, is out of Rough Habit’s half sister Chasing The Habit, a daughter of Sky Chase.

A G2 winner in New Zealand, Addictive Habit is raced by Rough Habit’s breeder Isabel Roddick and several other partners in John Wheeler’s former champion.

Addictive Habit’s trainer Lee Somervell also had a close association with Rough Habit, who recorded six of his 11 G1 wins in Queensland during the 1990s.

“When Rough Habit retired we had him for 14 years at the Cambridge Thoroughbred Lodge,” Somervell said.

“He died last November about the same time Addictive Habit won the Coupland Mile at Riccarton.”

• Savabeel’s three-year-old filly No Tricks is now a stakes winner on both sides of the Tasman after winning the Listed Daybreak Lover Stakes at the Gold Coast.

No Tricks has now won three of her 14 starts with her first nine starts taking place in New Zealand under former Te Akau Racing trainer Jason Bridgman.

After claiming her first stakes win in the Listed Warstep Stakes she was transferred to the Australian stable of Wayne Walters.

She had raced twice for Walters including a fourth in the Listed Ipswich Cup and the G1 Queensland Oaks, before her Gold Coast win.

Bred and owned by Paul Smithies’ Monovale Holdings, who offered her at the 2013 Karaka Premier Sale, the three-year-old filly has now earned A$150,886 prizemoney.

The current racing season has been a fruitful one for Smithies as he also bred G1 winners Puccini and Platinum Witness.

No Tricks is a daughter of Mezaire, an Al Akbar mare who won six races in Australia. Mezaire is a half-sister to stakes-winner Amazing Charm (Amazing Dancer), winner of the Listed Invercargill Gold Cup.

• The 5YO mare Queens Rose became the 81st stakeswinner for late champion sire O’Reilly when she won the Listed Tauranga Classic on Saturday.

Earning vital black type for a future breeding career had been at the forefront of trainer Graeme Richardson’s plans for the consistent mare.

“She is going to be a broodmare one day so to get some black type with her was our number one priority,” he said.

Queens Rose is out of the Pins mare Rosetti Bay.