Chris Waller targets Orr with Beaten Up

Sunday 8 February 2015, 2:12pm

Chris Waller is looking to begin the Group One year the same way he left the last.

The Waller-trained Moriarty claimed the final Group One of 2014 when he won the Kingston Town Stakes in Perth.

Beaten Up will try to keep the ball rolling in 2015 in the C F Orr Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday.

"He will be nominated for the Apollo Stakes in Sydney as well but I want to see him in Melbourne because the Australian Cup is the goal," Waller said.

"He came through his first-up run really well."

The winner of the 2013 Doomben Cup, Beaten up finished eighth in the Expressway Stakes (1200m) beaten less than three lengths.

His stablemate Weary won the Group Two sprint and will be among Waller's runners in the Apollo Stakes (1400m) at Randwick.

The trainer admits to being disappointed with the Expressway performance of Boban who finished ninth after failing to show his customary dash at the end of the race.

He is hoping the soft track was the reason and will take the gamble he will improve in the Apollo.

Waller will run Winx and Amicus in the Light Fingers Stakes for three-year-old fillies at Randwick.

Amicus is a Group One winner of the Thousand Guineas while Winx ran second to First Seal in the Flight Stakes.

"Amicus has come back a lot stronger and she is already a Group One winner so this race will tell us how they stack up against the other fillies," Waller said.

"The Coolmore Classic is the aim for Amicus."

First Seal will be among their rivals in the Light Fingers which also features the return of Sires' Produce Stakes winner Peggy Jean.

– AAP

Latest News

Prime Thoroughbreds - We have a Host of Leaders in our Team

Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Prime Thor­ough­bred’s cur­rent rac­ing team is putt­ing to­gether quite a re­cord. We have 22 hors­es that have raced in our team at pre­sent. Six­teen of th­ese are win­n­ers in­clud­ing the Stakes win­n­ing trio Ru­bisa­ki, Fituese and Xtreme­time with Miss Di­vine Em and Miss In Charge run­n­ing 4th in Stakes races. This sees a stakes win­n­er to win­n­er ra­tio of 18.75% with a stake’s per­formed to win­n­er ra­tio of 31.25%. Th­ese are ex­cep­tio­n­al fig­ures.   More »

Freedmans land maiden Group One win

Saturday, 27 February 2021

Un­der-rat­ed fil­ly For­bid­den Love has emerged as an au­tumn car­ni­val smokey with a bril­liant per­for­mance to win the Sur­round Stakes at Rand­wick.  More »

Capriccio completes Damian Lane treble

Saturday, 27 February 2021

In a big day for coun­try-trained hors­es, War­r­nam­bool fil­ly Capric­cio has tak­en out the In­glis Dash for Daniel Bow­man.  More »

More news headlines »