McDougall made the five-and-a-half hour trek to Hawkesbury last weekend, where he enjoyed a winning double after having success for Godolphin and the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott team.

It was McDougall's first winner for Waterhouse, and just his second for Godolphin after riding one winner for the racing giant as an apprentice.

Having dominated the country circuit for the past 18 months, McDougall was in high demand at the provincial meeting with city jockeys unable to ride there due to the current zones in place with COVID-19.

McDougall hopes to build a bigger association with those stables.

"Yeah definitely, especially on the provincial scene. There's probably no reason I couldn't ride there now, other than it being so far away," McDougall said.

"As long as this goes on and I can continue to get these rides, as long as I can continue to keep getting the winners then the rides will keep following."

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McDougall has already ridden 113 winners this season, surpassing his effort of 107 for last season.

He built on that tally with a winner for John Thompson at Kembla Grange on Tuesday.

McDougall said he got a thrill out of riding winners for James Cummings and Waterhouse stables.

"It was a good feel," he said.

"The positives and the negatives with the isolation and the virus, that's the positive for me, to be able to go up there and get them rides and ride them winners.

"The negative was I wasn't able to ride Bennelong Dancer in the final at Randwick."

With no city jockeys set to compete at the Wagga Gold Cup carnival, McDougall will be in high demand.

Meanwhile, three-time Southern District premiership-winning jockey John Kissick is ready to return to race riding.

Kissick has officially submitted his application for a jockey's licence, some three-and-a-half years after a steer-riding accident brought his career to a halt.