The Chris Waller trained Winx proved to be several classes above her opposition with a last to first win in the Group 3 $125,000 XXXX Sunshine Coast Guineas (1600m) at the Sunshine Coast today. Winx is one of the top fancies for the Group 1 $500,000 Treasury Casino & Hotel Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Doomben […]
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Sadler’s Lake All The Way Winner In Rough Habit Plate
Champion Sydney trainer Chris Waller wrapped up an early Doomben double today when Sadler’s Lake led all of the way to win the Group 3 $125,000 Mittys Rough Habit Plate (2000m). Waller had already saddled up Queensland Oaks bound Ballet Suite to win the Listed $100,000 City Property Services Princess Stakes (2000m) and now has […]
Chris Waller’s Silverball goes like a bullet to rule in Lord Mayors Cup
Brenton Avdulla labelled imported grey Silverball as potentially Chris Waller’s next weight-for-age star after the Hong Kong cast-off trounced his Lord Mayors Cup rivals for a first stakes victory in Australia. And Silverball’s emergence could not come at a better time for Sydney’s leading trainer following the death of Epsom Handicap winner He’s Your Man […]
Miss Antaeus books trip to Scone after impressive debut win
CHRIS Waller is happy for Miss Antaeus to go for a spell after competing at the lucrative Scone carnival following the filly’s impressive debut win at Warwick Farm on Wednesday. Miss Antaeus was the first horse out of the barriers in the More Than Ready@Vinery Handicap (1100m) but her jockey Blake Shinn was content with […]
Chris Waller passes the 100 mark but still keen for group 1 winners
Sydney premier trainer Chris Waller chalked up his 100th group 1 runner for the season last week, but his focus is on winners and the next chance for success comes in Saturday’s Doomben Cup where he has a handful of runners. Only one trainer has had 100 group 1 runners in Australia in a season […]
Waller 2yo Makes Big Statement At Canterbury
Press Statement has produced an impressive debut effort to take out the Tab Place Multi 2yo Handicap (1100m) at Canterbury on Wednesday. With all eyes on the John O’Shea-trained Reincarnate and Gai Waterhouse-trained Cyrus Rocks, the half brother to Pressday was sent out a $21 chance by punters. Sweetwater showed good early speed to go […]
Dream believer: Chris Waller at the top of his game
CHRIS Waller is the dominant trainer of Australian racing. In each of the past three seasons he has beaten Gai Waterhouse to be Australia’s leading Group 1 trainer and in the same time, his horses have won a stunning $60 million in prizemoney. From humble beginnings, he now has 300 horses on the books […]
Counterattack earns winter carnival trip
Chris Waller will use a proven template to give Counterattack his chance at an end-of-season Group One race. Waller announced Brisbane plans for Counterattack after the richly bred two-year-old scored a first-up win in the TAB Place Multi Handicap at Warwick Farm on Wednesday. It will put the late bloomer on course to follow in […]
Chris Waller and Jimmy Cassidy reunite for success with Grand Marshal in Sydney Cup
Deep in the bowels of the Randwick grandstand, Chris Waller told the man he famously had posters of on his bedroom walls he had made a mistake. “We had a private chat,” Waller said of his heart-to-heart with Jimmy Cassidy before he legged him aboard Grand Marshal in the Sydney Cup. “I said, ‘Jimmy, I […]
Chris Waller tears as Kermadec claims the trainer’s fifth Doncaster at The Championships
To know how much it means to Chris Waller is to look at his bottom lip. It quivers and wavers and doesn’t know what to do. His crack colt Kermadec knows better. He emphatically won the $3 million Doncaster Mile on Monday at Royal Randwick, which was special for many reasons not least because he […]