Michael Attwater

Between 1994/95 and 1996/97, Michael Attwater enjoyed a brief, but not entirely unsuccessful, career as a National Hunt jockey. He rode his first winner, Sophie May, trained by Mark Dixon at Ermyn Lodge, Epsom, in a juvenile novices’ hurdle at dearly departed Folkestone on December 30, 1994. Attwater remained a conditional jockey for Gary Moore at Cisswood Racing Stables in Lower Beeding, West Sussex for the whole of his short riding career, but over the next three seasons, rode four more winners, from a total of just 27 rides, at a not unhealthy strike rate of around 19%.

However, he grew too tall and too heavy to continue race riding and subsequently joined John Akehust at South Hatch Stables, back in Epsom, as head lad. Attwater began his training career with a salaried appointment in Nottinghamshire, before brief spells in Lambourn, Berkshire and at the Racecourse Stables in Epsom on his way to his current home at Tattenham Corner Stables. There, he holds a combined licence and trains around 40 horses at any given time.

On the Flat, Attwater enjoyed his most successful season, numerically, in 2017, when he saddled 25 winners from 237 runners, at a strike rate of 11% and, financially, in 2022, when he amassed £209,613 in total prize money. His occasional forays into National Hunt racing have proved less successful, with his sole winner for 57 runners, Sheila’s Fancy, springing a 33/1 in a handicap hurdle at Fontwell in January 2019.

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