THE Hamilton Racing Club celebrated 150 years of its racecourse and grandstand last weekend, commencing with a successful race day on Friday.

On Saturday, the celebration concluded with a more formal evening with speakers including Robert Hunter, John Donnelly and Chas Armytage who have all spent time in many official capacities within the club.

The overall presentation and reflection of the stories that helped build the club over the journey was very well received by all that attended.

On race day it was the Warrnambool trainers who dominated, with six of the races were won by beachside trainers.

Lindsey Smith dominated with a treble, while Matthew Williams, Peter Lafferty and popular veteran horseman, Quinton Scott, also chipped in with a win.

Smith landed his treble early, winning three of the first four races including the two Highweight events.

Jenni Castelforte and Diwali did enough to narrowly win when ridden by Will Gordon and Tom Ryan respectively, followed by the impressive It’s Lit for Fred Kersley.

A slow-maturing gelding by Tarzino, It’s Lit the winner of the Autopro Hamilton Maiden Plate can progress into a nice middle-distance/staying type as he continues to learn his craft.

Smith's success continues his great record at the track.

Peter Lafferty looks to have found a nice galloper in Bromfield, and strong winner of the Sinclair Wilson Maiden Plate.

Following two runs earlier in the year, the four-year-old was sent for a spell before his first-up win over the 1100m sprint trip.

With Lester Grace riding, he knuckled down well in the last 100m to eventually get the better of Tremamore and race favourite Anthophila.

Tauri lived up to his short quote with an easy five length in the CoggerGurry Maiden Plate.

It was the first leg of a riding double for Tom Prebble who also scored later in the day on Hampton Palace.

The win was the beginning of a big couple of days for Quinny Scott who also won with Love ‘N’ Run at Warrnambool on Monday.

The Armytage Family Handicap looked the best race on the program and proved to be just as exciting with Matt William’s gelding Loose on Gin narrowly edging out All Hands trained by Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr.

Jamie Edwards and Danny O’Brien took out the final two races, winning with Come Along Jeffrey and Hampton Palace respectively.

Jess Eaton and Linda Meech were the winning riders.

Our attention now turns to the iconic Dunkeld Cup meeting with a preview in this Saturday’s edition of the Spec.

Results

Race 1 - Bet365 Maiden Highweight Plate 2200m - 1st Jenni Castelforte (Will Gordon/Lindsey Smith) $2.20f; 2nd Instinctive Spirit (Aaron Kuru/Matthew Williams) $2.90; 3rd Maritorious (Campbell Rawiller/Symon Wilde) $7.50.

Race 2 - Southwest Equine Veterinary Group Highweight Handicap 2200m - 1st Diwali (Tom Ryan/Lindsey Smith) $8; 2nd Space Equity (Conor Brassil/Lindsay Cadzow) $13; 3rd Enrico Pallazzo (Nathan Newton/Sharni Julian) $17.

Race 3 - Sinclair Wilson Maiden Plate 1100m - 1st Bromfield (Lester Grace/Peter Lafferty) $16; 2nd Tremamore (Linda Meech/Symon Wilde) $3.60; 3rd Anthophila (Jack Hill/Gavin Bedggood) $2.80f.

Race 4 - Autopro Hamilton Maiden Plate 1600m - 1st It’s Lit (Fred Kersley/Lindsey Smith) $5.50; 2nd Moveen (Lester Grace/Symon Wilde) $21; 3rd Scotalotofgrunt (Jack Hill/Andrew Bobbin) $21.

Race 5 - CoggerGurry Maiden Plate 1400m - 1st Tauri (Tom Prebble/Quinton Scott) $2.20f; 2nd Shay’s Way (Alana Kelly/William Morrissey) $6; 3rd Dibalta (Jack Hill/Maddie Raymond) $8.50.

Race 6 - Armytage Family Handicap 1400m - 1st Loose On Gin (Linda Meech/Matthew Williams) $3.80f; 2nd All Hands (Jarrod Fry/Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr) $4.60; 3rd Mawkeb (Will Gordon/Patrick Kearney) $9.

Race 7 - Greg Allan Farm Machinery Handicap 1200m - 1st Come Along Jeffrey (Jessica Eaton/Jamie Edwards) $10; 2nd Frawley (Linda Meech/Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr) $2.80f; 3rd Alice Downs (Fred Kersley/Vincent Malady) $9.

Race 8 - Groves Real Estate Handicap 1100m - 1st Hampton Palace (Tom Prebble/Danny O’Brien) $9; 2nd Cash Converter (Linda Meech/Kane Harris) $4.60; 3rd Infinite Matrix (Will Gordon/William Morrissey) $9.