Waller weekly news 08 December 2016 This week the team celebrated two winners with our uniquely marked son of Redoute s Choice, Redoutable Heart breaking through in the last at Rosehill on Saturday to keep spirits high. He won in fashion that suggests with the confidence of a victory, there s more fun in store for this well-bred galloper and his connections this preparation. Meanwhile at the provincials on Saturday the Ingham family s home-bred filly Bold Carlota made the ideal start to her race career, winning on debut at Newcastle. From the first crop of Coolmore s Uncle Mo, she s a half-sister to two other Ingham family-bred winners in Bold Beginning and Cornish Tales. The stable has plenty of runners set to line up over the next few days with Canterbury night racing on the cards tomorrow plus chances at Flemington, Kembla Grange, Rosehill, Hawkesbury and Werribee. We wish all of our connections the best of luck and a safe weekend! INSIDE THIS ISSUE WINNERs News, getting to know benario de paiva & photos www.cwallerracing.com admin@cwallerracing.com +612 9760 5700
l CHRIS WALLER RACING - WINNERS THIS WEEK redoutable heart 5yo G Redoute s Choice - Wiener by More Than Ready This taleneted son of Redoute s Choice has returned from a lengthy layoff in fine form and he built on the promise of his first up run when winning at Rosehill on Saturday over 1500m. Blake Shinn was on board and he had Redoutable Heart in a good position throughout, just behind the speed, before hitting the front inside the final furlong for a relatively comfortable victory. This win should give him plenty of confidence for his forthcoming assignments. WATCH the race replay. bold carlota 3yo F Uncle Mo - Dalleth by Fastnet Rock This Ingham family s homebred daughter of American sire sensation Uncle Mo made the best possible start to her career when winning on debut at Newcastle on Saturday over 1150m. Chad Lever was in the saddle and he gave the filly a lovely introduction to racing, settling her towards the rear of the field early on. Lever gave her plenty of time to balance up in the straight before producing her with a winning challenge close to the line. It was a soft win at the finish and connections couldn t have hoped for a better start to her racing career. x WATCH the race replay. Thanks to Bradley Photographers and darryl sherer for our weekly photos. www.bradleyphotos.com.au
Waller breaks through $150 million prizemoney ceiling after amazing decade of excellence Chris Waller took his stable s career earnings beyond the magical $150 million prizemoney barrier when Redoutable Heart won the final race at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. The historic milestone was passed unnoticed because Sydney s premier trainer was in Perth for the Ascot meeting. But even in this era of inflated prizemoney, it is still a significant achievement. Waller joins Gai Waterhouse and John Hawkes as the only trainers to prepare the winners of more than $150 million in stakes in Australian racing history. His record is remarkable because the bulk of his stable s earnings almost $145 million has been won in the past 10 years. During this decade of sustained excellence, Waller has taken his tally of Group 1 wins to 65 since winning his first major with Triple Honour in the 2008 Doncaster Handicap, and he is now 10th on the all-time list behind Tommy Smith (282 wins). Waller became the first trainer to break the $20 million prizemoney barrier in a season in 2013-14 when he prepared the winners of $22.8 million. He broke that mark in 2014-15 with $26.8 million, then set a new standard last season with $30.2 million, including 15 Group 1 wins. After four months of the 2016-17 season, Waller s runners have won $10.7 million with three Group 1 wins. Redoutable Heart was Waller s 65th city winner this season and could threaten his all-time record of 169 wins set last season. - Ray Thomas. video preview Make Charlie and Chris s day and click on the image to the left to go to this week s video update with plenty of valuable insights into our runners this weekend!
Pride, stress, pure joy - it s all in a day s work for those closest to the world s third best racehorse Ben Cadden stood just behind Umut Odemislioglu as 10 of Australia s best weight-forage horses loaded into the gates for the running of the 2016 W.S Cox Plate. There were of course, nerves. But not of the hopeful nature. More of the confident. For the horse they were there to see, their horse, was the mighty Winx. As favourite 12 months previously, the daughter of Street Cry had put a comfortable 4 3/4 lengths on her rivals in the same race. Come 2016, her lead-up form was strong, so much so that this time she was odds-on. And, from the time she jumped from barrier three, there was never any doubt. Record winning margin Under the guidance of regular partner Hugh Bowman (the second-highest ranked jockey in the world on TRC Global Rankings), the 5-year-old looked good sitting midfield. At the 800m, she was travelling sweetly, cruising in fact. Another 200m and she was making her run, one so swift that, if you d blinked, you would ve missed it. At that stage, Cadden gave Umut a pat on the back. This is over, he yelled. Coming to the turn, Winx was off and away. Soft to the line, she won by a remarkable eight lengths, one length more than the record winning margin held since way back in 1979 by Dulcify. Two more than Sunline s demolition job in 2000. What were Cadden and Umut Odemislioglu, Winx s trackrider and strapper, doing during those historic seconds? Just enjoying the show. All we had left to do, Cadden says, was cheer home a champion. That second Cox Plate victory elevated Winx s rating in the World s Best Racehorse Rankings to 130, which puts her as the third best horse in the world (joint second with California Chrome if you factor in the mares allowance, and only a pound behind Arrogate). Cadden remembers the first time he saw Winx. There was nothing particularly special about her, though she was undoubtedly a nice type. She was just a light athletic filly who needed time to furnish into her frame he says. Foreman of barn six at the stables of Sydney trainer Chris Waller (who is world #3 in the TRC Global Rankings), Umut - who had been a fan of another famous daughter of Street Cry, Zenyatta, and subsequently the Street Cry breed - put his name down to look after the filly, who was housed in box 101. Small and immature She was small and immature, he says, but she got my attention. And there was, from the first piece of work, something there. From day one, she showed something, she showed that she could gallop, says Cadden. Making her debut as a late 2-year-old in June 2014, Winx got off to a tardy start but was strong to the line at Warwick
Farm. She was still immature and she got caught up in traffic at the back of the field, Umut recalls, but she still managed to get up and win. It was that first win that gave me the feeling that she was special, he continues, though he admits to having a soft spot for every horse he straps. I always have faith in the horses I take to the races, even if I know that they are not group class, though I always dream about them winning a group race. It is like they are our children. We always see our children as the best and believe they are better than the others. A couple of weeks later Winx again gave her rivals a start, and again she was too good. Signs of the remarkable Freshened for the spring, Winx won the G2 Furious Stakes first up, then was beaten but hardly disgraced when second in another two feature races. Another break and third up next time in she won the G2 Phar Lap Stakes enroute to a G1 AJC Oaks second. This filly was good, very good in fact, but not unbeatable. Not yet. It was in Queensland in May last year that Winx, as favourite in the G3 Sunshine Coast Guineas, first showed signs of the remarkable. Spotting the leaders some 13 lengths in the 1600m contest, she was still last turning. But, within a stride or two, she was able to round up her rivals. And put lengths on them. It was that day that I said to Chris Waller that horses just don t win like that, Cadden recalls. Winx has had 12 starts since that day, nine of those at G1 level. She has won them all. I have been lucky enough to have worked all around the world and been associated with some great horses, Cadden says. Juggler and Exceed And Excel will always be special horses to me; Juggler because he was the first G1 winner I strapped, and Exceed And Excel because, through him, I met my wife. I have been associated with horses who have won hundreds of Group 1 races between them. It is normally a difficult task to compare great horses. But not in the case of Winx. She is the best I will ever sit on, he says. Horses like her just don t come into your life very often. Up until she won her first Cox Plate, I said to Chris that Reliable Man was the best horse to walk into our stables. But she has surpassed him tenfold. And she is still going. Rhythmic breathing So what makes Winx the very special horse she is? She has got the lovely rhythmic breathing that increases with her speed; I have said to Hugh Bowman that it s her finest attribute, Cadden says. Of the Group 1 horses I ve ridden, she is the hardest of them all to slow down, though really she is not a hard ride. She s a lovely ride. Her stride length is so long and so efficient. She s like a Rolls-Royce. You can think she is doing evens but really she is running 12s and doing that on her ear. And she has fun doing it. When you are riding her, she will have a little play or a pig-root, says Cadden. She knows when to push the button. Close to race day, all she wants to do is run, and she builds up that energy accordingly.
A professional on the track, Winx is, says Cadden, an absolute pleasure at home. She just loves everything about her day-to-day routine, well except being brushed. She he is easy to deal with. She has a lovely temperament. That s a characteristic, says Cadden, that the majority of high-class horses have. I have not worked with many Group 1 horses who have not had a lovely nature. Umut (pictured right with Winx) agrees. She is a professional athlete and she is a pleasure to handle. And intelligent enough to let her people know when she wants a bit of downtime. She will let you know when she has had enough and wants her space, says Cadden. She enjoys her rest time, agrees Umut. And a biscuit of hay - she loves her food. Her favourite treat is a green apple. She cannot say no to green apples! Both Cadden and Umut know just how fortunate they are to have Winx in their lives, and they do not for a second take her or her races for granted. This year s Cox Plate was such a memorable and historic win, Cadden enthuses. It is something I will be telling the grandchildren about for sure. She was my first Group 1 winner as a strapper, says Umut, and she will always be my career highlight. She is fantastic to watch. She runs a race, wins and we think that s her best performance. But then she comes out and wins her next race in a different fashion. She continues to improve and it s mind-blowing. Posing for the cameras This year s Cox Plate for example. We knew she was a good horse, we thought she could win. But to do what she did... it was just incredible. She continues to blow us all away with her efforts. Everyone wanted a piece of Winx after her win, and she was happy to oblige. She knows she is good. Umut smiles. And, after a win, she just loves to pose for the cameras. I don t know of a good horse who doesn t know he or she is special, says Cadden, and she certainly does. Though she doesn t really want to be fussed over, she would rather have her own space. But she does take everything into her stride and she handles the attention on race day without any fuss. As far as she s concerned, she s just there to win. And when she does, Cadden and Umut are happy - and relieved. It is stressful for all of us, Umut admits. Her trainer, the owners, the staff, even the farriers, we take a deep breath after each race and look at each other and say thank God it s done for now. But, wow, what an experience this is for us! Umut Odemislioglu Hailing from Turkey where, as grandson of a breeder, he grew up around horses, Umut Odemislioglu has been in Australia for 11 years and was just recently granted residency. He has worked for Attunga Stud and trainer Tim Martin. He joined the Chris Waller stable five years ago. Ben Cadden The head trackwork rider for Waller, Cadden won the inaugural Godolphin Horsemanship Award at last year s Stud And Stable Staff Awards. He worked for Gai Waterhouse while still at school. He gained experience in England and Ireland, and he thanks Exceed And Excel for changing his life - it was while strapping him in the UK that he met his wife, the strapper of Frizzante, trained by James Fanshawe at Newmarket, who won the 2004 July Cup, in which Exceed And Excel was a disappointing favourite. - Kirsten Manning, Thorougbredracing.com
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getting to know Benario De Paiva This week our Rosehill-based trackwork rider and strapper Benario De Paiva kindly spent some time answering our questions. I m from Fortaleza, Brazil and got into racing because my Uncle used to have quarter mile horses which I used to ride before I went to racing school in São Paulo. I had 67 winners as an apprentice before moving to the UK in 2002. Nickname? Ben. Favourite part of the job? Riding nice horses. Best horse ever seen? Frankel. Favourite food? Medium rare steak. Favourite quote? Play hard, work hard. Favourite horse? Bantry. Role model? Peléor or Senna. Favourite jockey? Ryan Moore. If you could invite two people for dinner, who would you invite? Pablo Escobar and Obama. If you weren t in racing, what would you have done? I d probably have tried to be a professional footballer. Event in the world that you would most like to attend? A Manchester City in Champions League Final. What would you do with your last $5? Keep it! Tip for the weekend? Jaminzah.
Bold Carlota. Redoutable Heart. Melanie on the Makfi - Skeena and Matt on the Tavistock - Satisfact. Thanks to Bradley Photographers and darryl sherer for our weekly photos. www.bradleyphotos.com.au
Ash and Hursley. Ben on Richard of Yorke. Dom on Baubo. Sam and Blazeray. Aaron and the Frankel - More Strawberries colt. Redoutable Heart.
Naughty Thoughts doing his morning stretches. Zareyva. Avonaco. Jardine.
On a recent media tour in New Zealand Lisa Grimm was able to catch up some of the former CRW stars of the turf in Reliable Man and Royal Descent at Westbury Stud plus Sacred Falls at Waikato Stud. Sacred Falls. Royal Descent, now in foal to Swiss Ace.