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 […]
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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 Reasonable has been replaced by premier trainer, even champion, as he has taken Australia by storm in the past decade.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 […]
Blue-blood Tangmere gets maiden win
A sale topping colt by champion racehorse and leading sire Frankel, three-year-old Tangmere was a show-stopper at the 2016 NZB Premier Yearling Sale and broke the ice for his first win at Randwick on Wednesday. Bred and offered for sale by Pencarrow Stud, Tangmere fetched $1.3 million to the bid of a syndicate BBA Ireland/Mr […]
Zousain adds to Chris Waller’s juvenile firepower
Chris Waller noticed a resemblance between Zousain and his sire Zoustar when comparing photographs of the pair. And now Sydney’s premier trainer, who brought up his 100th Sydney metropolitan winner on Wednesday, hopes their racing records to develop into mirror images. Zousain took an early step towards that ambitious goal when he won on debut […]
Vintage Cellarman uncorks another win for Chris Waller
Cellarman has continued his resurgence with a dogged win at Rosehill, vindicating Chris Waller’s call not to spike the durable gelding’s preparation. The four-year-old gelding racked up his fifth win from eight starts when he claimed the Sydney Markets Foundation Handicap (1500m) on Saturday to push his earnings part $300,000. “We were talking about spelling […]
Fiesta digs deep to enhance Golden Slipper credentials for Chris Waller
The Chris Waller-Kerrin McEvoy juggernaut rolled on relentlessly with the trainer and jockey making a clean sweep of the first three races at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. Fiesta was their third successive winner with her fast-finishing effort in the Group 3 $150,000 Widden Stakes (1100m), coming immediately after the successes of her stablemates Charlayne in […]
D’Argento back a winner and autumn bound
Three-year-old colt D’Argento remains undefeated in three starts after an impressive return to racing at Randwick on Saturday. The grey son of So You Think had not been sighted since two wins during the winter last year but handled 1300m first-up with aplomb. Rider Hugh Bowman astutely waited until as late as possible to call […]
Waller wins Millions Trophy in a thriller
Trainer Chris Waller admits he was disappointed Tumultuous failed to develop into a Derby contender but he has given Sydney’s premier trainer a consolation win in the $1 million Magic Millions Trophy at the Gold Coast. Waller opened a Queensland stable at the Gold Coast in August and has already had 14 city winners with […]