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Index Linked returned to winning form with a tough staying performance in the 2015 Mornington Cup Prelude at Caulfield this afternoon. Index Linked had not recorded a race win since he beat The Cleaner in the Piping Lane Handicap (2000m) at Flemington over a year ago and he made a slow start to his autumn […]

A Golden Slipper qualifying win for Always Allison may not be enough to tempt the filly’s connections to pay a late-entry fee for the $3.5 million race. Sent out at $3.60 for Saturday’s Group Two Sweet Embrace Stakes (1200m) at Warwick Farm, Always Allison raced in a handy position and powered to the line half […]

CHRIS Waller admits he feels extra pressure training the fan favourite of Sydney racing, Catkins. “She is a lovely horse, always gives her all, and you become so protective of them because you don’t like to see her getting beaten,’’ Waller said. “When you are training these good mares like Catkins and Red Tracer, you […]

IF you listen to champion jockey Hugh Bowman, Catkins is just about the perfect racehorse. “She is always one of the first to jump away and puts herself in a forward position, making her own luck,’’ Bowman said. “Then she switches off totally underneath you, she relaxes and conserves energy and that gives her the […]

WEARY, the reluctant racehorse, resurrected his race career with a career-best win at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. Trainer Chris Waller made particular mention of Weary’s quirky nature being softened by the gelding’s new friendship with the stable pony, while jockey Tommy Berry reckoned there might have been some divine intervention after his Group 2 $200,000 […]

Quick Strike’s fast-closing fourth in the Tulloch Stakes has earned him a start in the Australian Derby but his biggest stumbling block is likely to be his Chris Waller-trained stablemate Preferment. The Victoria Derby winner assumed favouritism for Saturday’s Derby with his close second to New Zealander Volkstok’n’barrell in the Rosehill Guineas (2000m). Waller believes […]

IT was narrow and very hard work but Good Project broke through for a win at Randwick that trainer Chris Waller says could be the making of him. At the same time as he lamented not noticing a Group 1 race in New Zealand that would have suited the three-year-old, Waller was keen to set […]

IMPORTED stayer Diametric had to win his first Australian race in the stewards room at Randwick yesterday but it’s highly likely it won’t be his last. And jockey Blake Shinn’s decision to miss the Magic Millions meeting paid dividends as he seized the lead in the jockeys premiership from Hugh Bowman with a winning treble […]

SOUTH African-born, England-based apprentice jockey Daniel Muscutt wasted no time in booting home his first Australian winner on Saturday after arriving in the country a week earlier. The 19-year-old Muscutt, who has ridden more than 50 winners in England and Dubai, is on loan to Sydney’s premier trainer, Chris Waller, and the Broadmeadow race meeting […]

CHRIS Waller’s decision to scratch She’s Clean ($2.50) from her scheduled engagement in Friday’s Group 3 Belle of the Turf Stakes paid dividends with the daughter of Redoute’s Choice going within 0.01s of the Randwick 1400m course record in a blazing victory. Ironically, She’s Clean’s absence from Gosford opened the way for stablemate Mamwaazel to […]