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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 […]

Source: TTR Australia & NZ by Josh Spasaro Dundeel’s (NZ) impressive 2024/25 season continued in the G3 Epona Stakes, with Mare Of Mt Buller’s 0.92l victory in the $250,000 feature over 1900 metres. Under the urgings of a great ride from Zac Lloyd, the 4-year-old mare powered home inside the final 200 metres to win comfortably […]

Source: TTR Australia & NZ by Tom Baddock Lady Shenandoah (Snitzel) had plenty against her but still proved too good in Saturday’s G1 Coolmore Classic, delivering Chris Waller his third consecutive win in the race. Lady Shenandoah (Snitzel) might not have been at her scintillating best but it was enough to deliver Chris Waller his third […]