MARK Hatch finished the Hunter and North West Racing Association season in fine style at Tamworth on Friday.
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Hatch trained his third successive winner at a Tamworth meeting when Darren Jones pounced on leaders Snitzel’s Lass and first starter Tantamount to win the Downtown Magazine Maiden Handicap (1000m) by a half length on Warwick Avenue. Cody Morgan’s unraced three-year-old Tantamount, with Sam Clenton aboard, made Jones and Warwick Avenue earn it though, refusing to yield without a stubborn reply when the winner ranged up alongside.
However, Warwick Avenue finished too strongly to break through at his eighth start.
“Once he got into stride he travelled nice,” Darren Jones told Mark Hatch as he unsaddled. “He was going so well I was able to go around them and he went well. He was too good for them.”
Hatch has celebrated wins at the last three Tamworth meetings from a small stable of six.
“They’re all going well,” he said.
“Thee different winners at the last three meetings,” he confirmed.
“I’m having a good run, hopefully it keeps going. Good for Thommo too,” he said of Warwick Avenue’s Sarina owner Kris Thomas.
o Muswellbrook Race Club kicked off the nw HNWRA season at Skellatar Park yesterday with its Saddle Up Sunday Bengalla Cup meeing.
The next HNWRA meet will be at Scone this Sunday when the Scone Racing Club stages a seven-race meeting, nominations for which close at 11am tomorrow.