New kid on the block Jake Bayliss has been walking on air since Saturday, even if at times, he wished these feet could come sploshing back down on his favourite cattle-trodden pastures.

Getting a chance to ride in the country where he spent a part of his childhood (dad Jamie was a track rider with Mick Kent at Kranji in the early 2000s) meant the world to the 27-year-old Queenslander, and to boot home not only his first winner (Nate's Honour ) but to add a second (Rocket Ryane) a few races later was the icing on the cake any newly-landed jockey could have wished for.

More so in a dog-eat-dog industry where any fresh-faced newbie knows that the longer you wait to open your account, the harder it gets to gain a foothold.

The Australian jockey's Singapore stint has thus far gone to the script he had hoped for in the three weeks since he arrived, but if he had to be persnickety about one thing (nothing he had not been unprepared for), the country boy in him sorely misses the Australian rustic life.

"Saturday has to be one of my career highlights. Singapore is where I've always wanted to be, and when I capped off my second day (of riding) with a double, it made my family and myself very proud," said Bayliss who rode at the Sunshine Coast and whose younger brother-jockey Regan plies his trade in Sydney.

"The whole family watched every race on TV from Australia, while Regan was able to watch the two wins from the Sydney jockeys' room at Randwick.

"When I turned my phone back on after the last race, it was flooded with messages and well wishes.

"It's been a big dream of mine to ride here, and it hasn't sunk in yet that I have ticked that first win off. Everything's been perfect.

"I do like the lifestyle, too, but I'm a country boy, and if there was one thing I've found hard to adjust to, it's how I miss my farm back home.

"On weekends, I would normally be there fixing fences and rounding up cattle, riding horses all day. I don't get to do that there, and I guess I'll have to find a new hobby."

Luckily, Bayliss won't have too much spare time to fill in the next couple of weeks, at least. His phone has been ringing off the hook since his Kranji brace.

"Donna Logan and (husband) Peter have been great to me after they took my partner Hollee and myself under their wings since we got here. I'm still staying with them while also looking at a place to rent soon, preferably in Woodlands, as I want to be near the track and focus on my work," he said.

"Ricardo (Le Grange) and Tim (Fitzsimmons) have also been great to me, but since my wins, new trainers have reached out to me, like Leslie Khoo, Stephen Gray, Stephen Crutchley or Steven Burridge.

"I have six quality rides this Saturday, Den Of Thieves for Tim, Super Posh , Gamely and Diamond Ring  for Donna, Real Success  for Michael Clements and Split Second for Burridge.

"Split Second is on the quick back-up (after his fifth to Luck Of Master on Saturday). He's down in class (from a Class 4 over 2000m), and I think he's a good chance in his race ($30,000 Class 5 race over 2000m).

"Next week, I've also got four to five rides for now and a similar figure the week after. It's going to get busy for me, which is great."

Bayliss, who boasts three Group 1 winners to his name, all earned at a two-year stint (2018-2019) in New Zealand, is aware there'll be ups and downs on the road ahead, and regardless how many winners (Nate's Honour's trainer Fitzsimmons predicted 'plenty' at the winner's circle) come his way, the first will always leave a more lasting impression.

"Nate's Honour is such a tough horse. I watched a lot of his replays," he said of his first Singapore winner that came in a modest Class 5 race over 1400m.

"That was why I used him early, just to break up the field. I then eased off the sectionals to give him a breather, and I had plenty of horse at the top of the straight.

"Once I gave him a squeeze, he dug really deep and kept finding. That's when I knew I had my first winner in Singapore.

"I was obviously very overwhelmed to have ridden my first winner and then to add a second shortly after. I just have to stay focused, though, which I have always been, anyway, and I just have to continue working hard to get even more support."