Jockey Jamie Mott Secures Breakthrough Win with Attrition in Sydney

Jamie Mott was confident Attrition had the upper hand on Lindermann after their most recent clash and he was thrilled to be proven right, just, as the Mitch Freedman-trained galloper gave the Victorian jockey a rich first win in Sydney in the $2 million Hill Stakes (1900m).

Mott, who had just 11 rides in Sydney across almost 23 years in the saddle before Saturday, came to Rosehill to stay with Attrition after he finished third as a $100 shot in the Underwood Stakes last start with his first ride on the seven-year-old.

Lindermann finished last in the Underwood but started a $1.70 favourite in the Hill Stakes, which he won ahead of 2024 winner Attrition last year.

Nash Rawiller controlled the race on Saturday up front on Lindermann before Mott and Attrition ($6) wore them down late for a half-neck victory. Eliyass was third.

“You may as well do it in the big ones,” Mott said of scoring his first Sydney win.

“I’d love to come up more often, if the opportunities are there, I’d definitely be happy to jump on a plane. But it was a great result for Mitch and his team, and obviously myself, too.

“[Lindermann] obviously didn’t handle Caulfield last time, but I just couldn’t have that it was his race. They were right, he did improve a lot, but my horse was the same, he improved again, too.”

Attrition went past $4.37 million in prizemoney with just a fifth win in 33 starts.

“It has been a target race for us with this horse,” Freedman said.

“We’ve been so confident in the lead up to the run, the way he was going, the way he was tracking, the way he travelled up.

“He’s a seven-year-old now. He hasn’t had a heap of racing, but he’s had plenty of racing at the top level. It’s not too many times he’s out of that weight-for-age level and he keeps showing up.”

He said the Cox Plate was a likely next run for Attrition.

In the Alan Brown Stakes (1400m), Annabel and Rob Archibald scored a huge first Saturday metro NSW winner of the season when Formal Display led and held on by a long neck in the $1.5 million group 3.

Kerrin McEvoy took Formal Display, a $26 chance, to the front from barrier 12 and rated him perfectly to hold off Estadio Mestalla and Linebacker.

The Archibald training team had their first NSW city winner of the season on Wednesday with Alabama Fox on the Kensington track.

Annabel said the $3 million Big Dance (1600m) at Randwick on November 3 has been Formal Display’s target since qualifying with victory in the Tamworth Cup in April.

“The Big Dance is obviously the grand final, but happy to win $1.5 million race on the way,” she said.

“It was no surprise either, but I was a little surprised by his odds to be honest, but maybe it was the barrier.

“We were a little bit worried about the map, but Kerrin made the right decision. The intent was always to be forward, but we weren’t sure quite where. I thought we were going to be wide at one stage, so I was happy he kept pressing as he is a horse that you can come back and control races on.”

Queensland trainers Chris and Corey Munce were eyeing a spot in the $2 million Invitation for Gerringong after she broke through for the first time since December 2024 with a gritty victory in the group 3 Nivison (1200m).

Under Tyler Schiller, the $3.70 favourite raced wide throughout from a start in gate 12 but still had enough late in a blanket finish to beat Arabian Rose by a head.

Formerly trained by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, the five-year-old mare was having her fourth start for the Munces. Carrying John Singleton’s colours, Gerringong is named after the home town of Parramatta Eels legend Mick Cronin, who is a part-owner along with fellow former league players Bob O’Reilly, Phil Sigsworth and Peter Wynne.

Schiller won the last on Fierce to have a treble on the day after also taking out the Tapp-Craig on Chuchichaschtli, also trained by the Hawkes stable.

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