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Jockey Hugh Bowman has never exerted so much energy aboard super mare Winx but in the end she made it look easy, claiming her second Group I George Main Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday. “Once she got the scent, she just cuts in,” Bowman said. “It’s almost like auto-pilot.” Winx wasn’t the best to […]

Chris Waller’s bloodstock agent Guy Mulcaster has a knack for finding good horses at the sales often overlooked by others and this impressive debut winner caught most by surprise. By the young stallion Harbour Watch (IRE), who shuttled to Emirates Park for two seasons before lack of interest curtailed his travels, three year-old colt Paret […]

Chris Waller may have the best horse in the world in Winx but the champion mare also has the best jockey in the world in Hugh Bowman. “Great horses have great associations with jockeys – Vo Rogue and Cyril Small, Kingston Town and Malcolm Johnston, Tom Queally and Frankel, Luke Nolen and Black Caviar,” Waller […]

The morning after Winx’s Warwick Stakes victory two weeks ago, Chris Waller sat in front of his television at home and realised great horses don’t always win. “That could have been me,” Waller thought as the trainer of the world’s best horse Arrogate, Bob Baffert, had to explain the unthinkable for the second run in […]

Imported stayer Alward has racked up back-to-back wins in Australia to join stablemates Antonio Giuseppe and Sayed as the early favourites for the Group One Metropolitan Handicap. The Irish-bred gelding, who originally raced in France before joining Chris Waller’s operation last September, won second-up at Flemington earlier this month and then finished off impressively to […]

Comin’ Through went to paddock an awkward colt and has returned a mature horse, again showing some of the brute power of his half-brother Criterion. Trainer Chris Waller was content with the four-year-old’s first-up win at Randwick but hinted the $4 favourite would have been even better if not forced to lead from the outset […]

Champion trainer Chris Waller brings a strong mixed bag to the table in Saturday’s Pacific Boating Benchmark 82 Handicap (2000m) including a horse he says could be a “lightweight chance in the Metrop”. Waller said all four runners have claims for differing reasons on his weekly preview show Stable Talk but the market would indicate […]

Winx didn’t have a hard run, has pulled up in great order and is likely to be back at Royal Randwick in the Chelmsford Stakes in two weeks. This was trainer Chris Waller’s succinct summation after the mighty mare’s sensational win in the Group 2 $250,000 Bob Ingham Warwick Stakes (1400m) on Saturday. The Randwick […]

Sydney’s premier trainer Chris Waller was presented his seventh successive Bart Cummings Medal during last night’s NSW Racing’s Night of Champions awards held at Royal Randwick. The Bart Cummings Medal point score – honouring the legendary trainer who passed away just under two years ago – is comprised of votes from leading Sydney racing journalists. […]

Frankel broke new ground on Tuesday when Merovee provided the sire with his first winner in Australia. As a son of the unbeaten Frankel out of Group 2 winner More Strawberries, who finished placed in the prestigious Golden Slipper, big things had been expected of Merovee since he fetched A$1.6m at the Inglis Australian Yearling […]