Record Month of Winners Take Hatch to Top Position
It’s been a month to remember for the first month of the racing year. Our North Queensland Stables landed eight winners, and the Toowoomba Stables had five winners. On Saturday night Lindsay Hatch had two winners in Toowoomba in Talana and Cole’s Best which took the winning tally to thirteen for the month. With thirteen […]
Owners Clean Up the Bookies
It was another incredible four days for the team with five winners, which brought up eleven winners for August. To add to that some of our owners won significantly on the punt which is just the cherry on top. Last Friday we saw Dream Lantern destroy his opposition in Ipswich. A good ride from Noel […]
12 Months of Planning Pays off on Cup Day
It was the Sunday after the 2023 Townsville Cup Day that Lindsay Hatch and John Horan sat down and started the planning for the 2024 Townsville Cup Day. It is Townsville Horse Racing Grand Final Day, and having four winners was special for the team. It was a very busy week for the team getting […]
Lindsay Hatch Brings up 50th Winner of the Season
It’s been a great week for the Ares Racing and Hatch Team’s with Three Winners. It was exciting to have the new Hatch stable apprentice Dylan Bennett notch up his first win for Lindsay in Queensland. The win brought up Fifty Winners for the Season for Lindsay Hatch keeping him running Third in the Queensland […]
Newmarket Win Brings Up the Double
Circularity could not have been more impressive winning the Dalby Newmarket on Saturday. Jumping from the outside gate Justin Huxtable took Circularity straight to the front. He then got taken on from Neds Gully at the 800m mark which definitely looked like it would take its toll later in the race. However, down the straight […]
What to look for in a Tried Horse
We recently conducted a study of all the races in Townsville from September 1st 2022 to June 30th, 2023. We waited until after the Carnival was finished to try and only include the locally raced horses. The ten-month study was to identify which type of horses were the most successful and to create a guide […]
The week that was – Six Winners
It certainly was a great week for team Hatch with six winners in seven days in Cairns, Toowoomba, Bowen, Gold Coast and Dalby. It was a welcome relief for the team as it seemed we had been cursed with bad luck and bad gates lately. Last Saturday was a huge day with Sayl winning the […]
Good Things Come to Those who Wait
It was starting to look like the Northern Carnival that got away for the Hatch Townsville Stables, until a great ride from Shannon Apthorpe had Sayl fly home to win the Cup on Cairns Amateurs Day on the weekend. Lindsay Hatch said the plan this year was to have the horses peaking for the Townsville […]
7 Days of Drama Leads to Easter Weekend Success
Easter Saturday provided early joy for the team with flying two-year-old filly, Yellowstone Beth breaking her maiden in style. The filly has had a boom on her since an 8-length barrier trial win at Toowoomba in March. Named after the Firey “Beth Dutton” from Yellowstone, she showed all that, when only 7 days before when […]
Highlights and Runners to Watch
Photo Credit – Trackside photography It certainly was an impressive win for the Mackay and Townsville Guinea’s winner in No Going Back at Ipswich on Thursday over 1350M. The four – year old gelding was ridden perfectly by Cody Collis to win running away from the heavily backed My Snow Queen. He certainly looks back […]