"Our first major spring carnival without Winx has been our best ever. When youre doing dressage, youre not pounding around the racetrack, but its still a form of fitness. Based at Rosehill in Sydney and historic Flemington in Melbourne, Chris Waller Racing has 127 horses in work at any one time. With Melbourne in lockdown, Waller will be on course at Randwick for both races. Its quite labour intensive and you do it with your better horses because it wont make slow horses run faster, he said. IN what could be an Australian racing first, man-of-the-moment Chris Waller is considering offering a boutique service for owners, which will come at an extra cost. In 2013, he was successful with Sacred Falls in the Doncaster, a horse which had already demonstrated a winners pedigree in the New Zealand 2000 guineas, and in2014 the victory was repeated to give him his fourth Doncaster win. Cookies help us deliver our services. And then he met Winx, a heavenly partnership which was to create new levels of success on the track. The information, including pricing, which appears on this site is subject to change at any time. Waller knows many racehorses can struggle with the rigours of training, especially in Australia, where the developed surrounds of most metropolitan tracks consign Thoroughbreds to routinely working in circles around tracks rather than the rolling gallops of places such as Newmarket and the Curragh. People win a big race they go to yearling sales and they buy a horse. Facilities - CWR endobj Waller's uncle and grandfather trained horses, and they had family connections with Lupton. Subsequent campaigns have seen his successful streak continue with such horses as The Autumn Sun, Yes Yes Yes, Kolding, Funstar and the unforgettable, champion of them all -Winx. Maybe thats why I see in her a bit of myself was Wallers summing up. At this time, however, horse racing in New Zealand was far from thriving and opportunities limited, so when Paddy Busuttin left, Chris took advantage of his training certificate and stepped up and take charge of the stable.