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In the first real test for the new season’s three-year-old fillies, Fiesta has set the benchmark in the Silver Shadow Stakes at Randwick. The Chris Waller-trained Fiesta, raced by a Star Thoroughbreds syndicate, won the Group Three Widden Stakes in February before finishing second to subsequent Group One winner Seabrook in the Sweet Embrace Stakes. […]

Winx breaks the hearts of her rivals, moves grown men to tears and makes racing sport’s feel-good story. Racing’s winning machine is now a seven-year-old but age, like her rivals, isn’t catching up with the champion as she proved with her runaway win in the race named in her honour, the Group 1 $500,000 Winx Stakes (1400m) […]

Premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller has had to wait until the last race at Rosehill to welcome a winner with a horse he believes can step up to Group One company. Paret lived up to his $2.70 favouritism to win Saturday’s benchmark 81 handicap over 1350m and stamp himself as a contender for the Epsom […]

Sydney’s champion trainer Chris Waller came up with a novel description of Paret after the gelding’s win at Rosehill Gardens. “Paret is a second-tier good horse,’’ Waller said. “Each carnival we see one go through the grades and I’m hoping it is Paret this spring. “He could get to the Epsom Handicap, we will see […]

Chris Waller has celebrated his most successful season with four winners at Rosehill, including the final stakes race for 2017/18 with Mister Sea Wolf in the Winter Challenge. In the course of winning his eighth Sydney premiership, Waller has racked up a record 189 metropolitan winners, beating his previous standard of 169 reached in 2015/16. […]

The numbers are staggering — an eighth successive Sydney trainers’ premiership with an all-time record 189 city wins, nearly 340 race wins nationwide, 13 Group 1 successes and stable earnings of more than $34 million. This has been some 12 months for Chris Waller who capped his record-breaking 2017-18 season with four winners including Mister […]

The impressive win of Ocean Park three-year-old Star Of The Seas on Wednesday at Warwick Farm was particularly gratifying for Rosehill trainer Chris Waller and it was a case of history repeating. Star Of The Seas is raced by one of Waller’s oldest clients, Tony Muollo, a prominent figure in the fishing industry. The Waller-Muollo […]

Trainer Chris Waller has rated young stayer Ombudsman a potential Newcastle Gold Cup contender after a strong effort to win at Royal Randwick on Saturday. “We took Ombudsman to Brisbane for the Queensland Derby but he was an emergency and didn’t get a start,’’ Waller said. “But he has proven he can stay today and […]

When you are in charge of the world’s best racehorse, life involves an elite team of helpers, managing stress, avoiding risk, and watching her victories over and over. Chris Waller needed to take a breath before answering how he deals with the pressure of expectation on his champion mare, Winx. “She’s not allowed to lose […]

A solid pace over a distance short of his best was the catalyst for Liapari’s return to the winner’s circle in the Civic Stakes at Rosehill. One of four runners for premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller in yesterday’s 1350m listed race, Liapari was the longest priced of the quartet at $41. Punters came for Jungle […]