“It was still a good atmosphere at the stables at 3am. It’s all work and as long as we keep working hard Mark will give us the opportunities and it’s all worth it in the end,” he said. Schiller expected nothing different last Sunday morning and embraced it. Schiller celebrates on Eleven Eleven after winning The Warra last week.
Look at how hard James McDonald and Hugh Bowman work.” ‘You don’t make it if you don’t work hard. The first thing they have to learn, which stands them in good stead as senior jockeys, is that they need to work hard otherwise they struggle. “He needs to stay grounded and my apprentices work hard.
“He was at work at 3am on Sunday morning, so that tells you what we do,” Newnham said. Schiller was on his biggest high last Saturday afternoon but Newnham knew it was quickly time to bring him back to earth. “You generally get a gauge on how well they ride when they’re on horses at the back of a field.” A lot of kids just ride winners from the front when they’re claiming 3kg,” Newnham said. “He showed good patience on Eleven Eleven. His boss, Mark Newnham, praised the way he won both races, particularly on Greg Hickman’s sprinter who came from nowhere to beat favourite Malkovich. I couldn’t believe it, to be honest,” Schiller said. Schiller is coming off his best day in racing after riding Dragonstone and Eleven Eleven to victories at Kembla Grange’s Gong meeting last Saturday. “He gave me a different feeling to what I’ve felt on a horse before. It was like that with Dragonstone last weekend. “It’s a super feeling when you go fast and feel the horse quicken and go through its gears. “It was a different feeling from hacking around in a paddock to being in control of a horse and going flat out,” Schiller said. Schiller stated off his apprenticeship at Jerilderie as his mother worried about him getting hurt in the saddle.Īnd the feel he got when he started riding more seriously was like a drug. The 23-year-old grew up in Young and while his father and grandfather trained trotters, there wasn’t a huge amount of racing in the family. I did a school-based traineeship which opened the door for me to get into racing.” “I didn’t seriously think about it until I was in high school. “I always wanted to be a jockey,” Schiller said. Not many people know what they’ll do for a living when they’re three years old but no-one was going to tell Tyler Schiller that he wouldn’t be a jockey.Īnd twenty years later he’s putting his name up in lights in town as he mixes it with the likes of McDonald, Bowman, Berry, McEvoy and co.
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