A son of Spill The Beans, Talk Time is coming off a last-start second the Steven O'Dea and Matthew Hoysted-trained Ocean Zar in a 1400 metre Benchmark race at Eagle Farm on April 20.
On that occasion, Talk Time came from well back turning for home and went under by less than one length.
“His last run was enormous when he had to come from so far back and make a long sustained run,” Hatch said.
“He’ll be hard to beat in this race from his good barrier.
“Andrew Mallyon got off him that day and told me he’d run 2000 metres.”