Nash Rawiller is the ultimate professional when it comes to making connections and partnerships with owners and trainers and will call on them all in the final month of the season as he endeavours to run down James McDonald in the Sydney jockey premiership.
The heavyweight jockey is only 10 wins behind McDonald and could be set to make another July charge at the title, as he did when he caught Hugh Bowman in 2012-13.
Nash Rawiller has had to wait a couple of runs to get back on Waterford after winning on him first up.Credit: Getty
Rawiller can’t be first choice for any stable, mainly because of his weight, but he is always on the top of a trainer’s list for rides at the top of the weights.
He is keenly sought after given a strike rate above 20 per cent and the ability to get that little bit extra from his mounts.
However, it is away from the track where titles can be won.
Rawiller is quick to point to Dynamic Syndications, which he labelled his best connection, and who he will ride the Richard and Will Freedman-trained Jumeirah Beach and Jason Deamer’s African Daisy for at Rosehill on Saturday.
“They have been my biggest supporter since I got back from Hong Kong and opened doors into stables I wouldn’t otherwise be in,” Rawiller said. “I think my first two winners back were for them, and I always like getting in their colours. You need that support.”
Dynamic’s Adam Watt always likes it when his horses get up in the weights because it means they have been winning and that he can get Rawiller to ride.
“He has been a great jockey for us and we want to use him all the time, but they have to have the right weight,” Watt said. “He will be a big help on African Daisy on Saturday and hopefully we can get another win together.”