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Chris Waller has celebrated another career-first at Canterbury, training his first winner for esteemed owner and breeder Sir Patrick Hogan. A star-struck Chris Waller wasn’t sure whether to call his winning owner Mr Hogan, Sir Hogan or Sir Patrick. But it didn’t change the fact that Sydney’s supreme trainer had just landed his first winner […]

Top jockey Kerrin McEvoy capped off a busy weekend of travel when he took out the Goulburn Cup for unstoppable trainer Chris Waller. By the time McEvoy went to bed on Sunday night, he had racked up an amazing 2488km in travel, starting with Hawkesbury in the stifling heat on Friday, Ballarat on Saturday, then […]

Chris Waller didn’t become the dominant trainer in Sydney by rushing and his patience with Heart Testa was rewarded on Saturday one day short of the anniversary of the gelding’s last win. The five-year-old was having his fourth run since a 10 month absence and his strong victory in the Cellarbrations Kingswood Park Handicap (1350m) […]

Flemington’s loss was Chris Waller’s gain as it’s unlikely any jockey other than Jim Cassidy would have been able to lift Amovatio ($2.70) across the line in the 1600m race at Randwick yesterday. The Waller-trained bay was last and awkwardly placed on the fence in a muddling-run event. To make matters worse, Amovatio was held […]

Lightly raced Choisir four year-old Religify provided an important first metropolitan winner for the new association between champion trainer Chris Waller and Denise Martin’s Star Thoroughbreds. Denise Martin switched from Gai Waterhouse to Waller earlier this year and while some of the established horses have remained with Waterhouse, others have been transferred to Waller including […]

Jim Cassidy lived up to his nickname of “The Pumper” when he dug deep to score on the Chris Waller-trained Grand Marshal in a driving finish with Renew in the Visit Victoria Plate (2800m). Fresh from his two Group 1 successes last Saturday, Waller didn’t waste any time getting back into the winner’s circle on […]

Chris Waller’s group 1 double at Flemington on Saturday has him on track to rewrite the record books in terms of group 1 wins in a season. And the indications are he could achieve a lot more, including a first Melbourne Cup victory on Tuesday. The maiden Preferment’s Victoria Derby win was Waller’s 40th group […]

About the only time Linda Huddy was lost for words was when she was asked about her trainer, Chris Waller. “He’s a genius, what can you say? It’s amazing what he can do, quinellaing the Coolmore [Stud Stakes] and now he has this,” she said. “Words fail me.” In between were all the euphoric adjectives […]

The multimillion colts where nowhere to be seen as Brazen Beau raced his way into the breeding barn by winning the group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200 metres) at Flemington on Saturday. In the past few months, shares had been sold in favourites Rich Enuff and Rubick, which were down the track, but there was […]

Cup Week got off to a perfect start for Sydney’s premier trainer Chris Waller who produced a rising star in Kermadec at Flemington yesterday. Waller had noticed the latent potential in Kermadec in its two Sydney runs and wanted to test him against the better quality three-year-olds in the Group 3 $200,000 Carbine Club Stakes […]