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 […]
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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 […]
Catkins shines bright for emotional Waller
The affection Chris Waller has for his horses was evident on two fronts after Catkins cruised to her 15th career win in the Group Two Emancipation Stakes. Sydney’s most consistent mare is clearly also a stable darling, with Waller marvelling at her incredible will to win after she made the race a one-act affair at […]
Silverball makes up for unlucky Aust debut
The meticulous placement that has been a trademark of Chris Waller’s success with imported horses is about to be challenged with former Hong Kong galloper Silverball. Making up for an unlucky Rosehill defeat at his Australian debut, Silverball revelled in the heavy going to come from the back of the field to win the Liverpool […]
Permit Could Be Retired After Manion Cup Victory
Trainer Chris Waller has revealed that imported stayer Permit could be retired after he returned to winning form in the 2015 Manion Cup at Rosehill Gardens this afternoon. Permit started his 2015 Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival campaign with disappointing performances in the Listed Parramatta Cup (1900m) at Rosehill Gardens on February 21 and the Listed […]
Dance Of Heroes makes winning Aust debut
Being a close relation to an English Derby winner is unlikely to count for much when it comes to saving the manhood of first-up Warwick Farm winner Dance Of Heroes. A three-quarter brother to High Chaparral, Dance Of Heroes made a heart-stopping Australian debut for prominent owner Richard Pegum and trainer Chris Waller in the […]