Chris Waller

And he, you know, clearly, you know, as the Australian industry knows, Colts or the, Two- and three-year-old racing is vitally important commercially, and they won the Coolmore on a Saturday with the next episode as, you know, extremely valuable cult.

But clearly there's owners in that stable, and I know Chris Waller's in other stables as well, of course, but Kieran, a lot of clients that want to win Melbourne Cups and big races, staying races.

Will Bourne and the team, you know, it's easy to, you know, well, not easy, but it even with big budgets of $4 million plus and, you know, I heard $4.5 plus for Point of Law, it's not that easy to find them and then buy them as well.

They've all got, as we know, with the vet checks and everything, there's a lot that has to go right.

And again, that raised the eyebrow.

I picked with saying Asterix is trained by...

Chris Waller.

Uh, and obviously we saw out of that, that the horse had received treatment on race day for a topical, um, cream on, on, on its legs, uh, which is against the rules of racing.

And of course, we had Asterix from the Melbourne Cup race itself withdrawn on the day of the race because of what was found to have been negligence.

I think it was Chris Waller.

was found to have been negligent in the performance of his duties.

I think the stable, mate of stable hand has actually administered medication to the horse without the steward's permission, which is prohibited under the rules.

Hey Jack, I just want to get your thoughts on, on Kieran for a moment.

Like it is an unbelievable training performance and I know there's a big team that's, that's part of it, but in terms of what Kieran himself has been able to build and also achieve with, there's been a lot of conversations this week around, you know, has he surpassed Chris Waller as the best trainer in the country? You know, he's drawing comparisons now to Bart and what he was able to achieve in that sort of trajectory.

Yeah.

You work so closely with him, probably as close as anyone.

You too, Lizzie.

Yeah, a bit of everything.

I mean, it started with an incredible Derby day for James McDonald and Chris Waller and, you know, a Golden Eagle that was both brilliant in one way and frustrating in another, for she's an alibi, and then, you know, a big dance that sort of had a dramatic climax, but I think a Melbourne Cup for the ages, both pre-race and during the race, and then what we might look forward to.

So one of the all-time great Melbourne Cups, and then a a very special oak.

Yeah, a bit of everything.

I mean, it started with an incredible Derby day for James McDonald and Chris Waller and, you know, a Golden Eagle that was both brilliant in one way and frustrating in another for she's a Malabar.

And then, you know, a big dance that sort of had a dramatic climax.

But I think a Melbourne Cup for the age is both pre-race and during the race and then what we might look forward to.

And Lizzie, I talked about jockeys.

Well, there have been four trainers that have stood out.

You know, Kira Marr and Chris Waller, the obvious.

Andrea Leak's done a very good job with Cosmic Crusader, obviously.

You chilled for this one in the fridge already.

And we're going with the formidable pair of James McDonald and Chris Waller with Aliana in the championship stakes at Flemington.

Okay, so what's it? Race eight, number 10.

So you think today's the day for Aliana?

Aliana, it is the best on track.

So it's race eight horse, number 10.

And you're right, a formidable combination there of James McDonald and Chris Waller.

But the formidable combination when it's talking about fruit and vegetables locally here, it's Luke and Matt Bolas.

Yeah, I can understand that.

And he's got to be that Chris Waller polish.

I've sort of hedged towards King Pedro as the better of the two.

I want to keep Defiantly safe.

For $140 million, it is disappointing.

Zach? I'll have a million dollars on Chris Waller to win the Oaks with the favourite De Armas.

I will have a million dollars on Man of Worth to end up your most successful earning horse ever.

What is your most successful earning? Wycliffe?

And then lo and behold, the horse gets scratched.

And then we found out that Kiwi trainer Chris Waller had to scratch the horse on the day of the race because...

One of the guys in the stables had basically put deep heat on the

legs of the horse.

So there's a bit of form there.

Jay McDonald, C Waller, what a combo.

I thought 460 was not bad value.

The other horse, which I was surprised was such a big price, was Cabalus at $14 there with the Bunker.