New Zealand’s greatest modern day horse trainer has thrown his weight behind the revamped Karaka Millions but says he would further boost the mega meeting.
Chris Waller trained his 150th Group 1 winner at Randwick on Saturday when Fangirl won the A$1 million Winx Stakes with another expat superstar James McDonald in the saddle.
While both Waller and McDonald are now at the height of their powers in Sydney, both are still small-town Kiwi boys who love the thought of returning home to show off their skills.
There is no bigger stage to do that than the new Karaka Millions, possibly returning to a reopened Ellerslie on January 27.
“I love what they have done with the Karaka Millions,” says Waller.