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Chris Waller showed his team was ready to play a major role in Queensland when he had a two centre treble on Saturday. The premier Sydney trainer won with Colosimo and Loving Home at Ipswich and with expensive galloper Silverwin at the Gold Coast. Waller opened a Queensland stable at the Gold Coast in early […]

Criterion’s half-brother Comin’ Through staved off maligned stablemate Tom Melbourne in a desperate finish to Saturday’s Group III Bill Ritchie Handicap (1400m) at Randwick. Comin’ Through ($2.30 fav), prepared by Chris Waller, was courageous in victory after working overtime to sit outside the leader Burning Passion in a contest that finished 0.02 seconds outside of […]

Resurgent galloper Libran gave Chris Waller his fourth consecutive Group III Kingston Town Stakes (2000m) at Randwick on Saturday. Waller saddled up five runners in the $150,000 contest, including $2.90 favourite Life Less Ordinary and $5 chance Antonio Giuseppe, but it was $26 pop Libran which stole first prize in a stunning return to form. […]

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 […]