Gai Waterhouse headed to Canterbury on Wednesday confident Romantic Touch could make her start to the racing day a winning one. But even the ever-optimistic trainer would have been hard-pressed to predict the demolition performance the juvenile produced. Stepping up to 1550 metres for the first time in the Australian [...]
Chris Waller will roll the dice with promising two-year-old Zoustar and give him a shot at Group company in Saturday’s BRC Sires’ Produce Stakes at Doomben. The youngster was a dual acceptor in two states, with Waller paying up for the 1350m feature as well as a 1200m set weights [...]
A restricted-class race over a middle distance at Randwick on Saturday is shaping as an important pointer towards Brisbane’s two winter carnival Classics. A field of 16 and five emergencies were paid up for the Pixable Handicap (2000m), among them a host of Queensland Derby and Queensland Oaks hopefuls. One [...]
Chris Waller will rely on Permit to deliver one of the few off-season staying features missing from his resume with his other three McKell Cup entries likely to go north and south on Saturday. Moriarty and Studio are earmarked for the Premier’s Cup (2200m) at Doomben in Brisbane while Coup [...]
The racing future of dual hemisphere Group One winner Reliable Man is still uncertain with his owners fielding offers to stand him at stud in the spring. If the right deal is not struck this year, Reliable Man will return to be prepared by Chris Waller for a 2014 autumn [...]
The Doomben 10,000 hasn’t always been on the agenda for Rangirangdoo but trainer Chris Waller is warming to the gelding’s chances in next weekend’s Group One sprint. Waller originally pencilled in the Doomben Cup (2000m) as a winter goal for his eight-year-old but it soon became obvious the race would [...]
Chris Symons has done his chances of getting more rides for Chris Waller no harm, maintaining a perfect record for the trainer with victory on Fulgur at Flemington. On a day when Waller prepared the quinella of Beaten Up and Foreteller in the Group One Doomben Cup in Brisbane, import [...]
Premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller maintained his dominance of Group One weight-for-age races with a one-two finish to the Doomben Cup with imported stayers Beaten Up and Foreteller. Shoot Out was Waller’s sole spring Group One winner in the George Main Stakes and started the ball rolling for Waller in [...]
Premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller has taken his winning form to Brisbane with Beaten Up beating stablemate Foreteller to win the Group One Doomben Cup. Waller opted to take Beaten Up north rather than race in Friday’s Listed Scone Cup and the European import delivered with Leith Innes aboard. A [...]
Premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller was left to play a rare supporting role in a metropolitan-class staying race when veteran Queenslander Trajet scored a surprise win at Scone on Saturday. Much of Waller’s success in recent seasons has been built on winning races with imported horses over extended distances but [...]
