Post Type Archives: News

Source: ANZ News by Daniel Harrold Chris Waller’s exciting two-year-old colt Autumn Boy (The Autumn Sun) cemented his credentials for further stakes-level success with a dominant performance in the Tattersall’s Stakes (Listed, 1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday. The colt turned heads on debut at Canterbury on June 9 when he showed an electric turn […]

Source: Thoroughbred News by Mandy Cottell Chris Waller has broken his own record for most number of Group One wins in a season with Joliestar arriving in the final bounds to post a thrilling victory in the Kingsford Smith Cup at Eagle Farm. The mare’s success gave the champion trainer his 19th triumph at the elite level this term, eclipsing […]

Source: Magic Millions Triple Group One winner Zougotcha became the most expensive horse sold at auction in the Southern Hemisphere this year when she realised $5.25 million at today’s Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale. The prized daughter of Zoustar was offered as part of a quality Chris Waller Racing draft and she became the second […]

Source: ANZ Bloodstock By Trevor Marshallsea The blend of burgeoning Australian breed-shaper Fastnet Rock (Danehill) and American legend Storm Cat (Storm Bird) has produced another Group winner with Imperialist’s (Churchill) victory in Saturday’s Rough Habit Plate (Gr 3, 2000m) at Doomben. Bred by Gordon Cunningham of New Zealand’s Curraghmore Stud and Arkle Bloodstock’s Demi O’Byrne, the […]

Source: Racenet by Daniel Pace Most punters were probably hoping that a Chris Waller-trained horse won the $250,000 Group 3 Rough Habit Plate at Doomben on Saturday but they wouldn’t have expected it to be Imperialist. Sydney’s premier trainer Waller had four horses in the 2000m race, headlined by three-year-old filly Belle Detelle, who started the contest as the $3 […]

Source: TTR Australia & NZ by Kit Gow She may not be able to equal Winx’s (Street Cry {ire}) years-long unbeaten streak, but Via Sistina (Ire) (Fastnet Rock) can now stand beside Australasia’s greatest racemare as equal winners of the most Group 1s in one racing season, after victory in the G1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes on Saturday took […]

Source: TTR Australia & NZ by Kit Gow Jockey James McDonald strung together a back-to-back Group 1 double with Chris Waller on Saturday, backing up Via Sistina’s emphatic Queen Elizabeth win with a different queen a race later, taking out the G1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes with Fangirl (Sebring). The Ingham Racing-owned 6-year-old mare had her […]

Source: TTR Australia & NZ by Kit Gow Spring saw several 3-year-old fillies rocket to stardom within their first few starts, and it was the same story for Chris Waller’s Belle Detelle (Zed {NZ}) on Saturday at Royal Randwick, who made a victorious first leap into stakes company at her fifth start in the G3 […]

Source: TTR Australia & NZ by Kit Gow She’s just playing the boys’ games all season, and on Saturday, it was finally Aeliana’s (NZ) (Castelvecchio) turn to cement her place amongst the elite staying ranks with victory as the only filly in the field of the G1 Australian Derby. A last-start second by a hair’s […]

Source: TTR Australia & NZ by Josh Spasaro Champion trainer Chris Waller said Via Sistina (Ire) (Fastnet Rock) “lit up our lives 12 months ago”, and her amazing career continued with her eighth Group 1 win in the G1 Ranvet Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday. She was simply too strong inside the final furlong of the 2000-metre […]