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Chris Waller played a bit of cricket in his youth, but never opened the batting. He was more of a medium-pacer, but he knows about the nerves of getting off the mark. The six-time Sydney champion trainer, who had a record 169 wins last season, started on zero like everyone else on Wednesday, but quickly […]

An emotional Chris Waller declared he’d never forget this season after he broke his own Sydney training record with a treble at Rosehill on Saturday. It’s been nothing short of an amazing 12 months for Waller — 15 Group 1s, over $30 million in prizemoney, a sixth Sydney trainers’ premiership and now a new mark […]

As he rewrites the record books, the only bar Chris Waller has to get over is the one he sets himself. The premier trainer had one winner at Rosehill on Saturday to remain in striking distance of his own Sydney record of 167-1/2 set three seasons ago when there were 124 metropolitan meetings compared to […]

Chris Waller believes last-start winner Tales Of Grimm now has the confidence to win the Winter Stakes. Tales Of Grimm had his first win for Waller in the Listed Spear Chief Handicap at Eagle Farm on June 25. Waller said that win gave the seven-year-old an important confidence boost ahead of the Listed Winter Stakes […]

Racing has given Chris Waller a lot and the master trainer is only too happy to give something back. Waller jetted up from his Sydney base to Brisbane on Thursday where he put some smiles on the faces of kids at the Pony Riding for the Disabled Association at Pinjarra Hills. Waller, who won a […]

Awoke upset favoured stablemate Foxplay in a thrilling duel to open the Rosehill Gardens program on Saturday — and it is unlikely to be the last time these two promising fillies square off on raceday. Sydney’s premier trainer Chris Waller indicated Awoke and Foxplay will be given their chance to measure up to the better […]

Chris Waller couldn’t land a Group One winner during the winter carnival, but the leading trainer still had plenty to smile about at Eagle Farm. Waller won the Super Six trainers’ competition that was run on stakes races over the six Group One days of the carnival. He finished on 235 points on Saturday and […]

The band of Hugh Bowman and Chris Waller was back together for one day only at Rosehill on Saturday. The result should have been expected – three winners – Foxplay, Dinghu Mountain and Avonaco. It had been a couple of months since Bowman had been in Sydney on Saturday, a contract in Japan, with Hong […]

Punters may have been put off by Opinion’s weight in the Stayers Cup at Randwick but he has shown exactly why he earned it with a comprehensive win. The only other race apart from the Sydney Cup run over 3200 metres in Sydney, Saturday’s race attracted a field of 11 with Group One winner Opinion […]

A big part of Geoff Grimish will rejoice if Counterattack wins the Stradbroke Handicap on Saturday. But the Vietnam War veteran will also feel a sharp pang of guilt. Grimish, who has owned and bred Group 1 winners including Red Tracer and Shellscrape, makes regular trips back to Vietnam for charity work, including supporting an […]