Waller proves king of Coast

CHRIS Waller has won more than 100 Group 1 races and is the leading trainer in Australia and his stable is on the cusp of adding a new premiership to its list of titles.

Waller is currently running second in the Gold Coast trainers premiership with his 17 wins eclipsed only by reigning champion Les Kelly (19).

The man who trained Winx and produced $37,984,630 in prizemoney for the stable this season has won an unmatched 273 races this season, with 202 coming at metro level and his 64 provincial victories the second most in the country behind banned Beaudesert trainer Ben Currie (99).

Waller opened his Gold Coast stable in August 2017 and his foreman for the Queensland base, Paul Shailer, said it showed how competitive the stable had been.

“Wherever we send horses we hope to be competitive,” Shailer said.

“We don’t race a lot of horses at the Gold Coast, our main goal is to race horses in town for metropolitan prizemoney.

“Sometimes they have to start somewhere to build confidence and it’s good when they race there and are competitive.

“We have always sat around the 26-30 horses mark at the Gold Coast stable, it’s only really been in the last six weeks that we have gone up in numbers to around 40 now.

“We will probably sit around that mark for a long time now.”

Waller has three horses nominated to race at tomorrow’s Gold Coast meeting, with Construe and Tantalus both nominated for the 1800m Maiden Plate while Fast Eva is being considered for the QTIS Three-Years-Old Maiden Plate (1400m).