Punters have snapped up the $9 Sportingbet Australia put up on Tuesday about Chris Waller breaking the record for the most Sydney metro winners trained in a season.
Racing Hall of Fame legend TJ Smith trained 156 Sydney metro winners in 1975/76 and his record was matched by his daughter and Hall of Fame trainer Gai Waterhouse in 2002/03.
Waller is $9 into $6.50 to break the record after training a treble at Canterbury yesterday which took his tally to 21 for the season.
βPlenty of punters took the $9 about Waller breaking the record as soon as we put the market up on Tuesday and we wrote a few more decent bets at $8 after his first winner yesterday,β Sportingbet Australia CEO Michael Sullivan said.
βIf he keeps going at this pace Waller will smash the record out of the park.β
βWe still believe the winners wonβt come as easily over the Autumn and that the record will be tough to beat.β
Waller is $1.05 out to $1.09 not to break the record of 156 winners in a season.
Waller trained 117 winners in 2010/11 and 124.5 in 2011/12.
Chris Waller to train more than 156 Sydney metro winners
Sportingbet Australia Market
Yes $6.50
No $1.09