Beauty Boom unlikely to join Hatch's northern carnival team

By Glenn Davis

Toowoomba trainer Lindsay Hatch is unlikely to add recent stable acquisition Beauty Boom to his team for the 2023 Northern Queensland Winter Racing Carnival if the three-year-old adds to his winning record at Gatton on Tuesday.

Beauty Boom will chase QTIS prize money for the last time this season in the Three-Year-Old Benchmark 62 Handicap over 860 metres.

Hatch has 14 horses stabled up north for the winter carnival but is reluctant to add Beauty Boom to his carnival team.

“He turns four soon so really there’s no chance he’d go north but then again if he wins there’s always a possibility,” Hatch said.

“This is his last chance for him to win some QTIS prize money and he should be very hard to beat.”

Beauty Boom has only been in Hatch’s stables for two starts after he got a phone call out of the blue from part-owner Andrew Rogers.

“I got a call one day from Andrew asking me if I’d train him so I said yes,” Hatch said.

“I had never met Andrew or his father before and they are first time owners for me.”

Rogers races Beauty Boom in partnership with his parents Noel and Sue Rogers.

They also shared in the ownership of former top sprinter Spurcraft who started 34 times for 10 wins and nine placings with prize money earnings of more than $462,000.

Spurcraft’s best win was in the Listed Bribie Handicap at Doomben in 2019 for Toowoomba trainer and school principal, Charlotte White.

Beauty Boom started his career in Sydney with Annabel Neasham and was placed on debut in a maiden at Newcastle in April last year before he was sent north to her Eagle Farm stable.

The son of Spirit Of Boom collected a win and a second on the Sunshine Coast in May last year and was later sold after finishing fourth in a two-year-old race at the Gold Coast in June. 

In his first start for Hatch, Beauty Boom scored a resounding four length win in a Benchmark race at Gatton on June 24 before being edged out in a tight finish in a 1050 metre Class 2 at Toowoomba on July 15.

“He’s a very nice looking horse and I’m not sure why his previous owners sold him,” Hatch said.

“Although he was just beaten last start his run was very good as he had to give away a lot of weight to the winner.

“There were a few excuses for him that day and he was just gassed in the end.

“He’s back to an 860 metre race again and I expect he’ll be very hard to beat again.”