When it comes to learning what it takes to win the nation's biggest 2-year-old event, the Golden Slipper, Rosehill trainer Chris Waller says he's had the best teachers.
And with the dominant first-up win of Jade Marauder in the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale Plate (1200m) at Canterbury on Saturday, Waller unveiled one of the youngsters he hopes can help him beat those teachers on April 7.
"The beauty of training in Sydney is that you are training against the best trainers in the world," Waller told the Herald-Sun.
"Peter Snowden, Gai Waterhouse, John Hawkes is my next-door neighbour at Rosehill. Bart Cummings, Clarry Conners and there are plenty more I haven't named.
"If you can't learn from them there is something wrong."