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Chris Waller has the Queensland Guineas in his crosshairs after improving three-year-old Kolding toyed with his rivals in an emphatic Randwick win on Saturday. The son of Ocean Park showed why Waller holds him in such high regard as he coasted to his third consecutive metropolitan victory in the Candana Bathroom Ware Benchmark 78 Handicap […]

Staying filly Savigne has boosted her chances of sneaking into the Queensland Oaks field after beating older horses at Canterbury. Needing a win to improve her precarious place in the ballot order for an Oaks start, Savigne, a daughter of Ocean Park, overcame difficulties to claim the Canterbury League Club Handicap. The three-year-old settled in […]

Kubrick has delayed the unkindest cut of all by winning his two races impressively. The Chris Waller-trained Kubrick maintained the perfect start to his career with a fast finishing win in the Lonhro Hall of Fame Handicap (1200m). Waller’s stable representative Charlie Duckworth revealed consideration was being given to gelding the youngster until making his […]

Retired champion Winx is to have a new public stand at Randwick Racecourse named in her honour. Fittingly the facility is on the Leger Lawn looking directly at the 200m-marker where Winx customarily moved up to her rivals before going straight past them. The mare recorded 20 of her 37 wins at Randwick including her […]

The Brisbane Cup is suddenly on the radar for Le Juge after he continued his meteoric rise to Group III success in the Chairman’s Handicap at Doomben. Le Juge ($6) made it four wins in a row and his sixth from his past seven outings when he stormed to victory in the Chairman’s winning by […]

Thirteen-time champion Hong Kong jockey Douglas Whyte has spent the past week alongside Chris Waller as he prepares for his new career as a trainer later this year. Whyte, 47 was nicknamed ‘the Durban Demon’ during his riding days and he’s spent the past three months travelling the world, to learn training methods from some […]

The Gold Coast Cup is a new race on the Hollindale Stakes card but the result was a familiar one. Champion Sydney trainer Chris Waller’s Gold Coast stable has been dominating staying races in Queensland and the trend continued when the The Lord Mayor ($3.30) beat his stablemate Vaucluse Bay ($4) by a length with […]

Hollindale Stakes winner Life Less Ordinary isn’t the best horse in Chris Waller’s stables but the champion trainer believes the gelding is exactly what Australian racing needs. Life Less Ordinary ($5.50) gave Waller his third win in the Group Two Hollindale wen he beat his stablemate Mister Sea Wolf ($5.50) by 2 -1/4 lengths with […]

Tommy Berry marvelled at the change in Nobu as he looks toward the Queensland Derby after a convincing display stepping up in trip on Randwick’s Kensington track on Saturday. The Reliable Man gelding started a $4.40 favourite exploded away from his rivals after relaxing back in the field to score by 4¼ lengths from Chris […]

Blake Shinn was quick to praise rival jockey Robbie Fradd after Le Juge continued his outstanding Queensland form at Eagle Farm. Le Juge ($2.35) made it six wins and two minor placings since coming to Queensland when he beat Master Zephyr ($61) by a length in the Hoppy’s Handwash Cafe Open Handicap (1800m). A former […]