Waiting for the result of a photo finish can be agonising for a trainer, but with the trifecta in the bag Chris Waller could afford to be calm. Race favourite Dubaiinstyle ($3.90) gave Sydney’s premier trainer the win in the Dooleys Handicap (2000m) at Rosehill on Saturday, with stablemates Firebird Flyer ($11) and So […]
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Chris Waller awarded NZ Global Achiever award
The NZTR Award for Outstanding Global Achievement was founded last year to honour the exceptional deeds of New Zealanders overseas. Its first winner was the exceptional jockey James McDonald, and tonight’s second winner was the unstoppable Sydney trainer Chris Waller. Waller, who was at tonight’s ceremony to receive his award, trained 169 winners in […]
Chris Waller eases nerves as he gets off the mark with a winning double
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 […]
Chris Waller breaks record for most Sydney wins in a season with treble at Rosehill
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 […]
Waller closing in on metro milestone
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 […]
Confidence key for Tales Of Grimm
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 […]
Champion trainer Chris Waller donates $25,000 to the Pony Riding for the Disabled Association
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 reigns supreme in fierce battle of talented Chris Waller fillies
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 […]
Waller wins Bris carnival trainers’ prize
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 […]
Hugh Bowman and Chris Waller combine for Rosehill treble
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 […]