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CHRIS Waller has another potential top-liner in Bascule, a three-year-old colt who is putting together an impressive resume. The son of Thorn Park made it three wins (and a second) from four starts when he defeated a batch of up-and-comers in the Primacy Handicap at Flemington. After two wins in Sydney, the $5 chance made […]

Moriarty captured his first career Group 1 as he saluted in the $500,000 Kingston Town Classic (1800m) at Ascot on Saturday. The Chris Waller-trained seven-year-old gelding dug deep in the home straight as he ran past the Grant Williams-trained Disposition in the shadows of the post with an official margin of 0.15 lengths separating the […]

Sydney’s premier trainer Chris Waller conceded the options are limited for promising Harrier Jet over summer. Harrier Jet shouldered 59kg to an impressive comeback win in the De Bortoli Wines Handicap (1200m) at Rosehill Gardens yesterday and Waller fears the three-year-old will now be hard to place. “Harrier Jet will need to step up to […]

Chris Waller’s willingness to learn has resulted in I’m Imposing being reborn as a miler and his late charge gave him victory in the Festival Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday. I’m Imposing had been considered a stayer and won the Summer Cup a year ago when it was run at 2000 metres, but at nine […]

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 […]