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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 […]

As Chris Waller’s headline acts prepare to launch their spring campaigns in Sydney over the coming weeks, the trainer’s Melbourne team made an emphatic early-season statement with a winning treble at Flemington on Saturday. Leading home the three-timer was talented Irish import Alward who announced himself as a stayer on the rise with a dominant […]

Devil Hawk is no Winx but his victory in Brisbane holds special significance for Chris Waller. The trainer has just collected his seventh Sydney premiership and is preparing the country’s best horse for an attempt at a third Cox Plate. As the winner of a benchmark race at Doomben on Saturday, Devil Hawk was the […]

Dashing grey So You Think colt D’Argento kept his unbeaten record intact and stamped himself as a spring stakes prospect with a stylish victory at Rosehill on Saturday for the powerful Chris Waller stable. A debut winner at Newcastle on July 15 over 1200 metres, D’Argento made a swift transition to Saturday grade and relished […]

Despite claiming his seventh Sydney trainers’ premiership and topping the Australian Group One winner’s list for another season, Chris Waller is not about to rest on his laurels. As he prepares his team for the spring headlined by champion Winx, Waller is also searching for ways to improve on his record. The stable had nine […]

Tivoli Street has finally found the right road home at Warwick Farm to open his account at his eighth attempt for Sydney’s premier trainer Chris Waller.   The gelding spearheaded a stable trifecta in the 3YO Maiden (1400m) on Wednesday as Sacred Edge and Eight Over filled the minor placings.   A more conservative race […]

Chris Waller will welcome Aquis Farm as a new client when Colosimo debuts for his all-conquering stable at Randwick. Colosimo, a promising two-year-old filly, lines up in the ATC Member For A Day Handicap after being switched from Eagle Farm trainer Steven O’Dea. “Aquis are starting to spread their wings, they’ve got a serious management […]

Champion trainer Chris Waller declared his three-year-old filly Awoke is ‘back’ after returning to winning form at Canterbury Park on Wednesday afternoon. The promising filly failed to make the winners circle in her last campaign, with Waller admitting she went ‘missing’ in her last preparation. However she was back to her best when beating The […]