His trainer Joe Tizzard, based at Milborne Port in Dorset, has sent out 52 winners this season — a yard clearly in good form — and he has spoken openly about how ground conditions are almost everything with Hatos. The heavier the better, Tizzard has said, because the horse travels so easily through it. That ability to keep finding when the going gets tough was exactly what impressed him after Hatos' win at Chepstow back in January 2022, his first career victory. The horse ground it out when things got hard, which is precisely the quality you want in deep winter mud.
His last win came at Wincanton in February 2024 — 29 months ago now — and recent form shows a sequence without a victory across his last six races, with a couple of third-place finishes and a second mixed in. His regular partner Brendan Powell has yet to win together across 8 rides, though that is at least partly a story about opportunity rather than ability. Hatos races mostly at Class 4 level — solid, competitive races a rung or two below the top tier — and has won 2 of 12 at that level, or roughly 1 in 6. Not prolific, but not negligible either.
He raced just yesterday, which means he is very much an active horse right now. The record across 30 races with only 3 wins will never look flashy, but Hatos is one of those horses best understood not by his overall numbers, but by a single, simple question: is the ground wet enough? If the answer is yes, he becomes a very different proposition entirely.
| Course | Races | Results | Last visited | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wincanton Galloping |
10 | 1 win, 3 thirds, 6 other | 1 Apr | 10% |
| Fontwell Park Tight |
8 | 1 second, 3 thirds, 4 other | 24 May | 0% |
| Chepstow Galloping |
4 | 1 win, 1 third, 2 other | 31 Oct | 25% |
| Ffos Las Galloping |
3 | 1 win, 2 other | 16 Feb | 33.3% |
| Exeter Undulating |
2 | 2 other | 23 Nov | 0% |
| Lingfield Park Sharp |
1 | 1 other | 11 Dec | 0% |
| Hexham Undulating |
1 | 1 other | 11 Apr | 0% |
| Newton Abbot Sharp |
1 | 1 other | 23 Jun | 0% |