The close relations were just as close at the Hawkes Bay farm of Isabel and Graham Roddick, who bred both horses, and Isabel Roddick reckons some horse talk might have gone on over the years.
''I think Roughie told him what to do today,'' she said yesterday.
''I've got lots of photos of them walking together and I said to Roughie, `You better tell him how to run well'.''
And run well he did, despite the track not being a surface he has had much success on.
The son of Colombia made a name for himself over the winter on wet tracks and was yet to feature in nine attempts on a good track.
However, occasional showers across Riccarton yesterday might have been just what the 5yr-old needed.
''We didn't get the rain that we thought, but she said it's nothing like the hard tracks that he struck at his last start in Hastings,'' his Cambridge trainer, Lee Somervell, said.
''It was a wonderful ride by Danielle Johnson too - I said he's got to be up on the pace.''
The sense of occasion was not lost on Somervell either.
''It's right to say it's a very addictive habit with this horse and for him to win it only a few days after his close relation Rough Habit died, he is a great horse to rise to the occasion.
''He's just got a heart like a tiger and what a time to do it.''
Isabel Roddick is just pleased to see more success coming through Rough Habit's mother, Clean Habit, who is the granddam of Addictive Habit.
''Years ago, they said it was a one-horse family, but it's far from that now. It's full of black type from the one mare I had.''
The win in the $230,000 feature continued a stunning run of form for Danielle Johnson, who picked up four wins at Tauranga on Saturday and won the opening race yesterday on Please Release Me.
''He jumped quite well and Lee's instructions were to go forward,'' Johnson said.
''When Albany Reunion sped around me, I was happy to take a sit.
''I got a little bit of a kick on the corner and he won well.''
