2026 Loretta Lynn’s: Top-10s, a Moto Win, and a Podium at the Ranch

Regional season got us eight tickets to the ranch. The 45th Monster Energy AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship at Loretta Lynn’s Ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, is where those tickets get cashed. We lined up all four of us — William Canaguier (#95), Chace Lawton (#51), Trinnytie Batchelor (#9 / #4), and myself, Chris Hunter (#50) — across eight classes, and I could not be prouder of how this group handled the week.

This was Will and Chace’s first Pro Sport week at Loretta’s after stepping up from B class. Trinn was still in the middle of a real comeback from shoulder surgery. I had not raced the ranch since 2023. None of that is a soft landing. The Pro Sport gates were loaded with national-caliber speed — Zach Osborne, Landon Gibson, Ryder Malinoski, Jesson Turner, Kade Johnson, and a deep field of guys who came here to win titles — and the B and Schoolboy fields were just as serious.

When the week was over we had six top-10 overalls, a moto win, and a podium. That is a ranch week I will remember.

The Ranch

Move-in was wet and sloppy. Once motos started, the weather flipped to near-perfect and the track got rough and competitive in a hurry — the way Loretta’s always does. Racer X’s mid-week recap captured it: after a messy arrival, the racing itself ran in heat, ruts, and a surface that rewarded people who could keep putting in laps when it got ugly. Thursday was the hottest day of the week. Pro Sport went off when the track was at its worst. That is exactly when we needed our guys to show up.

Daily recaps from the week: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Team Results at a Glance

Rider	Class	Motos	Overall	Highlight
Will Canaguier #95	Open Pro Sport	12-9-9	8th	First Pro Sport week at the ranch; consistent against a title-fight field
Will Canaguier #95	250 Pro Sport	9-20-6	8th	Bounced back from a lap-down Moto 2 to 6th in Moto 3
Chace Lawton #51	Open Pro Sport	18-19-22	17th	Moto 1 charge: +20 net passes after a rough start
Chace Lawton #51	250 Pro Sport	18-9-16	10th	First Pro Sport national; 9th in Moto 2 was the statement ride
Trinnytie Batchelor #9	250 B	9-17-5	8th	5th in Moto 3; named in the MX Sports / Racer X recap
Trinnytie Batchelor #4	Schoolboy 2 (12-17) B/C	14-7-7	8th	Ran 2nd off the gate in Moto 3 behind the eventual champion
Chris Hunter #50	Senior (40+)	9-7-18	10th	Solid first two motos in a deep vet field
Chris Hunter #50	Senior (45+)	1-3-4	3rd	Moto 1 win and a podium at the ranch

Will Canaguier

Will came into this week with a Loretta’s resume already — 2nd overall in Schoolboy 2 and 4th in 250 B in 2025 — but this was a different assignment. Open Pro Sport and 250 Pro Sport are the two hardest amateur classes in the country, and he raced both of them against guys who are either already proven at the pro level or about to be. Finishing 8th overall in both is a legit ranch debut in Pro Sport.

Open Pro Sport — 8th overall (12-9-9)

Zach Osborne won the class (1-2-5). Landon Gibson took the last two motos and the Horizon Award. Will never left the top 12, and he got stronger as the track got worse.

Moto 1 was a 12th with no incidents and a +2 net. Moto 2 he moved forward to 9th. Moto 3 he went 9th again, but the lap times told the real story: his best dropped to 1:47.699 and his average to 1:56.992, with a 1.068s variance. That is a rider who found the ranch as the week wore on.

Moto	Pos	Best Lap	Avg Lap	Net Passes	Laps
Moto 1	12th	1:52.510	2:01.057	+2 (4+/2-)	13
Moto 2	9th	1:52.857	2:00.345	+2 (4+/2-)	13
Moto 3	9th	1:47.699	1:56.992	0 (2+/2-)	13

250 Pro Sport — 8th overall (9-20-6)

This class had a little bit of everything. Ryder Malinoski won it (1-2-3). Will opened with a 9th in Moto 1 — clean, inside the top 10, on a Kawasaki KX250 against the same group we see in SMX Next.

Moto 2 got away from him. Two incidents, a 198s variance, and he finished 20th, a lap down. The frustrating part is the speed was still there — his 1:49.637 best lap was faster than a lot of the riders who finished ahead of him, and he still made 21 passes. The moto just would not stay together.

Then he answered it. Moto 3 was 6th, zero incidents, +2 net (two passes, never passed), and a 0.865s variance. That is the Will we came here to see: take a punch on a national stage, then go put in the cleanest moto of the week.

Moto	Pos	Best Lap	Avg Lap	Net Passes	Incidents	Laps
Moto 1	9th	1:46.879	1:59.839	-4 (1+/5-)	0	13
Moto 2	20th	1:49.637	2:06.193	-12 (21+/33-)	2	12
Moto 3	6th	1:46.485	1:58.266	+2 (2+/0-)	0	13

Double 8th overall in Pro Sport at Loretta’s, in year one of that jump, is a result we will build on.

Chace Lawton

Chace won the North East 250 Pro Sport regional at Southwick with a 1-1-2 and finished 2nd in Open Pro Sport there. The ranch is a different animal, and this was his first Pro Sport national. The overalls — 10th in 250 Pro Sport, 17th in Open Pro Sport — do not tell you how hard he raced when the start did not go his way.

250 Pro Sport — 10th overall (18-9-16)

Moto 1 was a grind: 18th, one incident, a lot of traffic. Moto 2 is the one I want people to remember. He went 9th with +6 net passes (7 made, 1 time passed) and zero incidents. That is the regional-champ version of Chace — once he had a lane, he used it.

Moto 3 he finished 16th after another incident, but he was still moving forward (+5 net, 10 passes made). A top-10 overall in 250 Pro Sport in your first ranch week in that class is a real result. I am proud of how he kept fighting every gate drop.

Moto	Pos	Best Lap	Avg Lap	Net Passes	Incidents	Laps
Moto 1	18th	1:55.795	2:02.425	+2 (18+/16-)	1	13
Moto 2	9th	1:54.127	2:00.571	+6 (7+/1-)	0	13
Moto 3	16th	1:54.802	2:03.018	+5 (10+/5-)	1	13

Open Pro Sport — 17th overall (18-19-22)

Open Pro Sport was a long week. The field at the front of that class was a supercross/motocross reunion, and Chace was racing from the back more often than we wanted.

Moto 1 still showed who he is. He finished 18th, but he made 21 passes against 1 time passed — a +20 net. That is a last-row start and a charge through the field with one incident along the way. Moto 2 was 19th. Moto 3 was 22nd. The overall is not what we came for, but I will take the fight in Moto 1 and the 250 Pro Sport top-10 as the version of this week that points forward.

Moto	Pos	Best Lap	Avg Lap	Net Passes	Incidents	Laps
Moto 1	18th	1:59.375	2:02.129	+20 (21+/1-)	1	13
Moto 2	19th	1:56.586	2:03.752	-2 (3+/5-)	1	13
Moto 3	22nd	—	—	—	—	—

Trinnytie Batchelor

Trinn’s path to this ranch week started in a doctor’s office. Shoulder surgery knocked him out of Daytona. Regionals were a question mark. He answered that at Lincoln Trail with a 1-1-1 in 250 B and podiums in 450 B and Schoolboy 2. Then he came to Loretta’s and put two more 8th overalls on the board against the best B and Schoolboy riders in the country.

That is a comeback.

250 B — 8th overall (9-17-5)

He opened with 9th, had a tough Moto 2 in 17th, then closed the week with 5th in Moto 3. Racer X’s Friday recap had him right there in the title moto: Tristan Prueitt won it, Dane Pappas was second, McKayden Fitch third, Tanner Dorman fourth to wrap up the championship, and Hunter Racing Kawasaki’s Trinnytie Batchelor finished fifth.

Dorman won the class 2-3-4. Trinn’s 5th in that last moto, after the year he has had with his shoulder, is one of the rides of our week.

Schoolboy 2 (12-17) B/C — 8th overall (14-7-7)

Moto 1 was 14th. Then he found the race: 7th and 7th.

The final moto is the one that will stick. MX Sports / Racer X had Tristan Prueitt leading off the start with Hunter Racing Kawasaki’s Trinnytie Batchelor and McKayden Fitch in tow. Trinn was in the podium fight early and went bar-to-bar with Wyatt Duff for second before the race shuffled. Prueitt swept the motos 1-1-1. Trinn brought it home 7th — and 8th overall for the week.

Coming off surgery, racing two classes all week, and still running at the front of Schoolboy 2 in the last moto at the ranch: that is Trinn.

Chris Hunter

I have been working toward this week for a long time. I had not been back to Loretta’s since 2023, and racing vet classes while running this program is its own kind of grind. It also keeps me honest about what we ask our guys to do every time the gate drops.

Senior (45+) — 3rd overall (1-3-4)

This is the result I came for. I won Moto 1 — Wednesday’s Day 2 winner in the class, on the Kawasaki, out of Swarthmore, PA. FloRacing had it 1. Christopher Hunter, 2. Martin Garcia, 3. Michael Mercer.

Moto 2 was 3rd. Moto 3 was 4th. Martin Garcia won the championship 2-1-2. I finished 3rd overall. A moto win and a podium at the ranch, first time back in three years — I will take that every time.

Senior (40+) — 10th overall (9-7-18)

The 40+ class was stacked. Andrew Short swept it 1-1-1. I went 9th and 7th in the first two motos, then 18th in Moto 3, which took a better overall off the table. Still a top-10 in that field, and I was in the fight when the racing was clean.

Racing both vet classes all week, then watching Will, Chace, and Trinn do what they did in the premier amateur classes, is why we built this program. Getting to do it with family around the truck made it better.

Closing

We came to the ranch with eight tickets and left with six top-10 overalls, a moto win, and a podium. Will doubled up 8th in both Pro Sport classes in his first year at that level at Loretta’s. Chace put a 10th on the board in 250 Pro Sport. Trinn came back from surgery and went 8th and 8th, with a 5th in 250 B and a front-row fight in Schoolboy 2. I got the 45+ moto win and stood on the box.

That is a ranch week.

Next up for the program is the SMX Next Scouting Moto Combine at Ironman on August 29. We will be ready.

Special Thanks

A week at Loretta’s takes a village.

Thanks to Ryan Holliday and everyone at Kawasaki / Team Green — Greenville behind the starting line is part of what makes this event what it is, and we are proud to race green at the ranch.

Thanks to Evan at Thor for the gear.

Thanks to Jeff Cernic for sprockets, tires, and everything else that keeps these bikes turning laps all week.

Thanks to Tyler at Powerband Racing Florida for the suspension support.

Thanks to Todd at Factory Connection, Joel at FMF, and Christian at Alpinestars.

And thanks to all the families for traveling, staying prepared, and representing this team the right way when the spotlight is the brightest it gets in amateur motocross. None of this happens without you.

Huge thanks as well to our sponsors for helping us keep building this program the right way.

2026 Loretta Lynn's: Top-10s, a Moto Win, and a Podium at the Ranch