Jamie Mott suspended AGAIN!

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GEELONG jockey Jamie Mott has suffered another setback to his career after his second positive drug test in less than six months.

On Wednesday Racing Victoria stewards suspended Mott for six months after a urine sample he submitted on April 15 tested positive to a banned substance, an amphetamine, consistent with the use of ecstasy.

Mott, 20, only returned to race riding at the beginning of March after a four-month ban for traces of cocaine in a urine sample.

He is the first rider in the state to test positive to ecstasy and he pleaded guilty to his urine sample containing a banned substance. In arriving at Mott's penalty, stewards took in to account the "unique circumstances" including medical evidence confirming he had been suffering from concussion due to a fall at trackwork at Flemington on April 11 and also his personal circumstances.

Last month stewards fined Mott $2000 and ordered him to get a medical certificate clearing him to ride after he failed to attend race meetings at Kilmore on April 6, Moonee Valley on April 9 and Stawell on Sunday, April 12.

After diagnosing Mott with concussion, Racing Victoria's medical consultant Gary Zimmerman referred him to a neurosurgeon.

Mott's suspension runs from April 15 to midnight October 15. He is also banned from riding trackwork and trials until he delivers a negative sample.

Mott was excited about his comeback earlier this year and rode 18 winners from March 3 to April 7. He hasn't ridden since.

Mott is one of Victoria's tallest jockeys at 182 centimetres and has ridden 296 winners.

After riding 111 winners in 2008/09 , Mott faced a series of racing inquiries.

In September he was fined $2000 fine when he weighed in on winner, Cashius Pay ($1.90), more than 0.5 kilograms under the allotted weight of 58 kilograms in a race at Ballarat. The horse was disqualified.

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Way to piss a career up the wall. The bloke started to make inroads as a jockey.

Who will seriously touch him now?

 

[Colin D'Cops]

Obviously when he comes back, he'll still be highly sort after at country meetings provided he can put the past behind him. Not a bad jockey; Hopefully he can sort himself out.

 

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Back riding track work with Russell Cameron apparently! Good luck Jamie!