Cellarman’s rise through the ranks has taken his connections by surprise, so much so the winner of the Doncaster Prelude has not been nominated for the big race. When entries were taken for next Saturday’s $3 million race, the Chris Waller-trained Cellarman was running in benchmark races and wasn’t considered a Doncaster Mile candidate by […]
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Winx to skip Royal Ascot and target fourth Cox Plate in spring
Winx won’t run in Royal Ascot this year with trainer Chris Waller keen to give the champion mare every chance to win an unprecedented fourth Cox Plate next spring. After months of speculation about will she or won’t she be sent to overseas to race, Waller and Winx’s owners, Peter Tighe, Debbie Kepitis and Richard […]
Chris Waller weighs up Derby or Doncaster for D’Argento after slashing win
DERBY or Doncaster for D’Argento? It’s a nice problem for trainer Chris Waller to ponder. D’Argento gave Waller and jockey Hugh Bowman successive Group 1 wins when, 40 minutes after mighty mare Winx had won the George Ryder Stakes, the striking grey three-year-old stormed home wide out to win the $600,000 Sky Racing Rosehill Guineas (2000m) […]
Winx notches world record as pressure mounts on Waller team
They don’t celebrate the wins for wins anymore – they just breathe a sigh of relief that she’s not beaten. Never has a world record been smashed with so little out-and-out euphoria. They smiled and kissed and hugged and did all the things you do when you win a $1 million race, but so rarefied and […]
Performer a genuine Slipper hope for Chris Waller Racing
The colt who recently sent Hugh Bowman crashing to the turf will carry the champion jockey’s hopes of a first win in one of Sydney’s signature races. Bowman has 77 Group One wins on his record in some of the world’s best races but success in the $3.5 million Golden Slipper in his home city […]
Impressive debut for Waller stable’s Zoustar colt
Australia’s leading first season sire Zoustar added another impressive debut winner to his tally on Wednesday with a first up Warwick Farm success for the Chris Waller trained colt Lean Mean Machine. Unbeaten in winning his only two previous trials in Feabruary and early March, Lean Mean Machine took that good form smoothly towards race […]
Metropolitan double for Chris Waller and Zoustar
Champion trainer Chris Waller unleashed a winning two year-old double for Australia’s leading first season sire Zoustar on Wednesday at Warwick Farm with exciting wins for Lean Mean Machine and Madam Rouge. Click here to read about Lean Mean Machine, who won the first race. Madam Rouge was resuming from a break having finished fifth […]
Winx races into history with 16th group one
Winx has eased her way into history to become Australia’s leading Group One winner with a no-fuss seven-length victory in the Chipping Norton Stakes. Showing no signs of the erratic barrier behaviour which marked her spring campaign, Winx was all business yesterday as she claimed group one win No16, one more than Black Caviar. After […]
Cellarman’s stamina shows in Rosehill win
Durable gelding Cellarman shows no inclination to quit despite a punishing workload. The four-year-old opened this campaign in July, took on his 13th field at Rosehill on Saturday and notched his fourth win in five starts by claiming the #slipperstyle Handicap (1500m). Cellarman ($3) held off $2.80 favourite Show A Star by half a length. […]
Chris Waller humbled by Hall of Fame recognition
All Chris Waller wanted to be was a reasonable trainer when he started in the tough game of preparing racehorses in New Zealand. Reasonable has been replaced by premier trainer, even champion, as he has taken Australia by storm in the past decade. On Friday night, he will become a Hall of Famer in New […]