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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 […]

Jockey Brad Stewart produced one of his best rides to land his second Toowoomba Cup on The Lord Mayor, 20 years after winning his first. Stewart won the Toowoomba Cup on Gene’s Interest in 1999 and has ridden more than 1000 winners since but few have been better rides. He got The Lord Mayor one […]

Chris Waller’s Gold Coast stable had one of its most important days when The Lord Mayor and Sexy Eyes completed the Toowoomba Cup-Weetwood Handicap double at Clifford Park. While Waller is motoring towards a century of Group 1 winners on Day 2 of The Championships next week, his Queensland stable manager Paul Shailer acknowledged how […]

Winx had her usual exhibition gallop a week before a run at Randwick on Saturday morning and thankfully there wasn’t much to say for Chris Waller and Hugh Bowman. Winx galloped over 1000m in 1min02.59sec and she was cranked up to 85 per cent capacity over the final 600m to run it in 34.67sec. “We’re […]