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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 […]

Peter Tighe, a part-owner of Winx, paid tribute to the genius of Chris Waller after he trained his 100th Group 1 winner with the great mare’s Queen Elizabeth Stakes success at Royal Randwick. “I don’t think anyone is more deserving than Chris of getting his 100th Group 1 winner with the best horse that has […]

Jay Ford broke his Group 1 drought with a cool ride on Shraaoh over the 3200m at Royal Randwick to give trainer Chris Waller three majors in as many races. Waller had won the ATC Oaks with Verry Elleegant then his champion Winx got the job done in the Queen ­Elizabeth Stakes before Ford steered […]

More than 40,000 fans will converge on Randwick to watch Winx’s farewell on Saturday but her trainer Chris Waller will be nowhere to be seen. In fact, he’s the one who asks others what it’s like to watch Winx. Waller never watches his horses race in the flesh, preferring to sit alone in a small […]