Chris Waller will be recognised as Sydney's premier trainer on Saturday and hopes to finish his season of milestones in style on his home track.The final metropolitan race of the season at Rosehill is the Congratulations Chris Waller Handicap (1300m), recognising Waller's achievement of winning his first Sydney trainers' premiership.The 37-year-old has managed to break the almost 20-year stranglehold of trainers from either Crown Lodge or Tulloch Lodge and he also became just the fifth trainer t
Chris Waller will be recognised as Sydney's premier trainer on Saturday and hopes to finish his season of milestones in style on his home track.
The final metropolitan race of the season at Rosehill is the Congratulations Chris Waller Handicap (1300m), recognising Waller's achievement of winning his first Sydney trainers' premiership.
The 37-year-old has managed to break the almost 20-year stranglehold of trainers from either Crown Lodge or Tulloch Lodge and he also became just the fifth trainer to prepare 100 metropolitan winners in a Sydney season.
He has Key West in the final event while in the feature $100,000 Winter Championship (1500m) he will be represented by five runners.
"It would be great (to win the final race of the season)," Waller said.
"It would just be another one of those fairytales that we've been spoilt with over the year really.
"Key West will appreciate a better track if we get a bit of fine weather and he has got a good draw (five) so he's certainly got a chance."
Waller has continued to improve his results every year in the decade since he moved from New Zealand and made a late premiership challenge last season before falling four wins short of Peter Snowden's 98-win total.
Snowden finished in style last season with victory in the final metropolitan race.
Waller's experience in the 2009/10 campaign whetted his appetite to try to go one better this time around.
"Last season we were in front for the first six months so obviously we got a taste of being a frontrunner," he said.
"Then we were soon overtaken and got a long way behind but to then have a good end to the season last year was encouraging.
"From that it showed me we had the systems in place and the right team to do that."
Waller believes consistent results throughout the current campaign had been the key to his breakthrough premiership triumph, with the trainer able to enjoy the final meeting with a 22-1/2 win lead over Snowden.
"We just haven't had a bad month," Waller said.
"We started strongly, we had a good mid-season, I thought we might drop off through the (autumn) carnival but we had a strong carnival and maintained our lead.
"And the last few months have been similar to last year where we've been very strong again. I guess we've always been hopeful this season but never got too far ahead of ourselves because it's very disappointing if you don't reach your goals."
Snowden trains the Winter Championship favourite Scarf while promising import Foreteller is the highest-placed in betting of Waller's five-pronged attack.
"He looks a promising horse," Waller said of Foreteller who hasn't raced since scoring a dominant win over 1600m at Randwick on May 28.
"I wouldn't like to see the track any worse than slow for him but he's a horse we've got a high opinion of. He showed a glimpse of that in his last start prior to a short break and he looks to have come back well."
The Waller-trained Altered Boy won the Winter Championship last season and is lining up again along with Snow Alert, Bellagio Wynn and Gigino.