Queensland trainer Brian Wakefield will consider keeping Dave The Dude in Sydney for this month's Stayer's Cup after the lightly-raced gelding scored at Canterbury on Wednesday.Dave The Dude's two-length win in theraces.com.au Handicap (2800m) was the first leg of a winning double for jockey Grant Buckley who also claimed the TJ's Champagne Bar Handicap (1200m) on the Darren Smith-trained Dream And Excel."It's been a great day at the office," Buckley said."That first horse (Dave The Dude) is a n

Queensland trainer Brian Wakefield will consider keeping Dave The Dude in Sydney for this month's Stayer's Cup after the lightly-raced gelding scored at Canterbury on Wednesday.

Dave The Dude's two-length win in theraces.com.au Handicap (2800m) was the first leg of a winning double for jockey Grant Buckley who also claimed the TJ's Champagne Bar Handicap (1200m) on the Darren Smith-trained Dream And Excel.

"It's been a great day at the office," Buckley said.

"That first horse (Dave The Dude) is a nice horse on the way up and I even gave Dream And Excel a good chance because she won well at Muswellbrook last start and was dropping a lot in weight."

The Doomben-based Wakefield decided to bring Dave The Dude to Sydney because he said there were no suitable distance races in Queensland.

"He won last start over 2450 metres (at Beaudesert) and I saw this race over 2800," Wakefield said.

"He's always showed he would stay and it wasn't an overly strong race. I just thought he is a young horse on the way up with a light weight so it was a race I thought we should go for.

"It's nice to travel anywhere and come away with a win."

Wakefield had planned to return to Brisbane with Dave The Dude on Friday but said he would now sit down with the gelding's owners and talk about running in the $100,000 Stayer's Cup (3200m) at Rosehill on June 19.

Buckley said stepping Dave The Dude up to 3200m wouldn't be a problem.

The rider is leading the NSW jockeys' premiership with almost 100 winners across the state so far this season.

Sydney premiership leader Nash Rawiller, meanwhile, maintained his six-win advantage over nearest challenger Corey Brown with the pair both getting a winner at the meeting.

Rawiller opened the day with victory on the Gai Waterhouse-trained two-year-old filly Dal Dal in the Rosehill Gardens Event Centre Handicap (1100m) before Brown rode the Joe Pride-trained Our Boy Lukas to victory later in the day.

"She's a lovely filly and has shown that she is going to be a nice type all the way through," Rawiller said of debut winner Dal Dal.

"I think she'll take a lot of improvement from that win today and will be better when she gets to 1400 metres or a mile."