THERE APPEARS TO BE NO STOPPING TEAM MUNCE

By Graham Potter | Sunday, November 23, 2025

There appears to be just no stopping the Chris and Corey Munce training partnership and the four-year-old mare Walsh Bay … that is, either individually or collectively.
Walsh Bay’s gritty win in the $160 000 Mooloolaba Cup at the Sunshine Coast was the daughter of Deep Field’s sixth successive win, a run which has seen her maintain an unbeaten record this season.

Co-trainer Chris Munce was, understandably, full of praise for the achievements of Walsh Bay whose Mooloolaba Cup success was her third straight feature race victory after saluting in the Toowoomba Cup and the Queensland Cup in her last two starts.

The Mooloolaba Cup win was particularly impressive as it came after a freshen-up over 1600m, a distance short of her best as evidenced by the win over 2000m in the Toowoomba Cup and the 2400m win in the Queensland Cup.

But it is the bigger picture of the Munce train and how is steaming along on its winning way without breaking stride that is capturing attention.

When Walsh Bay saluted she was Team Munce’s sixteenth winner from their last forty-one starters … a thirty-nine percent winning strike-rate, no less … and the stable, who had an earlier winner, wasn’t finished for the day.

They quickly adding another two winners to their tally to come away from the Sunshine Coast with a four-timer.

And then they won the first race at Beaudesert on Sunday.

That took the father and son training partnership to thirty metropolitan winners for the season … that is, with less four months of the current season completed. That is only five winners less than they achieved over the full twelve-month period last season!

And their horses are not just winning. Some of them are winning over and over again.

For example, as mentioned, Walsh Bay has won six-in-a-row. Brave Monarch has won three in-a-row. Poster Girl has won two in-a-row. Oberoi Princess has won two in-row. Zip Lock is one from one after winning on debut.

That is just a sample taken for the stable winners so far this month.

And remember, it is the Munce stable that has the Queensland Two-Year-old Horse Of The Cool Archie waiting in the wings.

Cool Archie was responsible for last season’s most stunning sequence of wins going from a Maiden win to success in the Group 1 JJ Atkins in a two-month winning blitz.

When he resumes, he will be looking to extend a winning sequence which currently stands at five in-a-row.

And that is the way it has been going for some time.

It is extremely difficult to reach this overall high level of stable performance … and it is equally if not more difficult to maintain it, yet, right now, Chris and Corey Munce are conquering both of those challenges and clearing both hurdles with seemingly something to spare.

You would be tempted to say this is as good as it gets, but the way the stable keeps raising the bar who knows where their ceiling is.

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