Waller was a short half-head from copping a mighty kick, the mare an even finer margin away from doing serious damage to her hind legs.Waller watched the race on television in a tiny room buried in the bowels of the throbbing Randwick grandstand, as he always does. Others peered through the fence at Alison Road near the 2000-metre start as the country's biggest bookmaker Tabcorp reported a record $4 million was splurged on Winx, which started at $1.06, to win through their fixed odds arm.
"No words describe it," Waller muttered as he emerged from his little viewing hole. "I just did the best I could. You don’t set yourself up for these big wins. You just do your job." "We're not sad, it's no good being sad. The tears are all tears of joy. We're fortunate to be the ones that are up the front of the boat and there's a few more years of this story and we'll be telling every inch of this.
There's a wall in the Randwick tunnel the Australian Turf Club dedicates to group 1 winners each season. Waller had barely walked 10 paces when Winx's colours were being plastered onto the Queen Elizabeth Stakes placard.He could have. But Winx will never be yesterday's horse.His brother-in-law Robert committed suicide last year, his great friend and fellow jockey Tye Angland was left a quadriplegic after a race fall in Hong Kong in November.
He's lucky she didn't whip him for a kilometre
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