The Straight’s Matt Stewart wanted to ask champion trainer Chris Waller about dealing with pressure. What came back was a 26-minute unfiltered voice message reply which sets out the challenge Waller faces every day to meet his own very high standards.
The complexity of Chris Waller has rarely been laid so bare.
Waller was busy; not a fob-off to a journo with a list of questions, but a Waller fact. His days are meticulously structured. There are few spare minutes.
Instead, his EA, Sophie Baker, suggested I email a handful of questions and Chris would do his best.
A day later, Waller texted a 26-minute audio file. It proved for more revelatory than a simple Q and A. It was so compelling as to require a rethink of the format.
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