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Jockey Jay Ford was in no doubt one of the best horses racing at Randwick on Saturday was the impressive Funstar which made it two from two when taking out the ATC Heritage Volunteers 2YO Handicap (1200m). Funstar is the half-sister to Group I winner Youngstar and raced by most of the owners that form […]

Chris Waller has always held a high opinion of Kolding but it took the ultimate gear change to get the best out of him. The Ocean Park gelding is destined for big things and chalked up the best win of his career with an impressive victory in the Group II Ascot Green Queensland Guineas (1600m) […]

Chris Waller became the first trainer to prepare the winners of at least $40 million prizemoney in a single season after the wins of Catwalk and Invincibella yesterday. Catwalk produced an impressive fast-finishing effort to win the opener at Royal Randwick, the Winter Racing Handicap, leaving Waller needing just another $10,000 race prizemoney to achieve […]

A failed mission to win the New Zealand Derby appears to have been the making of Nobu who will be given the chance to win the season’s last Classic in Queensland. The Chris Waller-trained gelding beat one horse home in the NZ Derby at Ellerslie at the beginning of March. Waller brought him back to […]

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 […]