Australia’s best jockey James McDonald must be growing tired of being plonked on the wrong Chris Waller horse in a run of group 1 outs that have probably cost him up to $150,000 in prize money.

Waller snared the $3 million Caulfield Guineas with talented colt The Autumn Boy on Saturday in a victory that would have earned the winning jockey $90,000 for a five per cent cut of the victor’s cash.

Jockey James McDonald will be hoping to add to his group 1 tally in coming weeks. Credit: Getty Images

Sadly for the McDonald bank balance, he was not the winning jockey. Instead, J-Mac partnered Waller’s other three-year-old colt Wodeton which finished 10th.

It’s the second time in successive weeks that McDonald has been on the wrong side of the ledger. A bit like the fastest Formula One driv

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