Colin Hayes retired from training in 1990. Taking over where his dad left off, David Hayes launched his training career with a tirade of winners. He took Lindsay Park not only to further heights, but also to the world.
He was an instant success. At the helm of Lindsay Park for five years before leaving to train in Hong Kong, David won every Premiership in Melbourne and Adelaide. He was the first Australasian trainer to lead in 300 winners in a season, then setting a Commonwealth record and he set a world record of training six Group winners in one day at the one race meeting - Derby Day at Flemington.
He trained Jeune to win the Melbourne Cup for Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Then going to where no Australian trainer had been before, he took his Cox Plate winning champ, Better Loosen Up across international seas to conquer the richest race in the world at that time - The Japan Cup - one of the world's most prestigious weight for age events.
Peter Hayes, Colin Hayes & David Hayes
Training CV In Brief
David Hayes
David Hayes Racing Stables Uniform
David Hayes and Tony McEvoy
1st August, 1990 to December, 2007
David Hayes took out his trainers licence in 1990 taking over where his father Colin Hayes left off.
1990 — 1995 (Prior to Hong Kong)
- David won every Premiership in Melbourne and Adelaide for those 5 years
- First Australasian trainer to lead in 300 winners in one season setting a Commonwealth Record
- Trained six individual Group winners in ONE day at Flemington setting a World Record in 1990
- First and still the only Australian trainer to win the Japan Cup. (Better Loosen Up in 1990)
- Won the Cox Plate with Better Loosen Up in 1990
- Won Caulfield Cup with Fraar in 1993
- Won the Melbourne Cup with Jeune in 1994
- Won VRC Derby with Blevic in 1994
- Trained 17 individual Gr 1 winners (33 Gr 1 wins)
1996 — 2005 Hong Kong
He became he "benchmark" trainer in Hong Kong, who all looked up to.
On arrival he shot to the top of the Hong Kong Trainers Premiership List winning two Trainers Premierships and remaining in the top four on the Premiership List every season he was there.
He won Hong Kong's major races: The Derby, The Sprint, The Classic Mile and The Stewards Cup.
2005 — 2006 Returned To Australia
In first season back:
- Won Australia's greatest two-year-old races – The Golden Slipper with Miss Finland and The Blue Diamond with Nadeem
- Leading Australian trainer of stakes winners to tally 28 individual winners (36 wins)
- Leading Australian trainer of two-year-olds 46 individual winners (62 wins) inc 15 individual two-year-old stakes winners
- Took Lindsay Park's total tally of winners to over 9,000
- Trained 5 individual Gr 1 winners (6 Gr 1 wins)
2006- 2007 Second Season Back
- Won the Melbourne Premiership and the Adelaide Premiership
- Broke all time Australian record for prize money earnings for one season to tally AUS$19,413,432
- Leading Australian trainer by stakes winners to tally 30 individual winners (47 wins)
- Trained over 100 Melbourne Metropolitan winners
- Won Blue Diamond (Sleek Chassis) for the fourth time (no other trainer has won this race 4 times)
- Other Blue Diamond winners were Nadeem (2006), Cannonise (1991), Principality (1995)
- Won Caulfield Cup with Tawqeet 2006
- Won Cox Plate with Fields Of Omagh 2006
- Won VRC Oaks with Miss Finland 2006
- Awarded Leading Trainer of VRC Spring Carnival 2006
- Leading Australian trainer of two-year-olds 45 individual winners (60 wins) inc 14 individual two-year-old stakes winners
- Trained 7 individual Group 1 winners (11 Gr 1 wins)
USA - 7th July 2007, ran third in Gr 1 American Oaks at Hollywood Park (2000m) with Anamato
To date David has won a total of 51 Group 1 races, Includes three International Gr 1 races:
- Japan Cup with Better Loosen Up in 1990
- Hong Kong International Sprint with All Thrills Two in 1999
- Hong Kong Derby with Elegant Fashion in 2003
2007 — 2008 Third Season Back
- Won the Gr 1 VRC Derby with Kibbutz
- To date has trained 8 Gr 1 second place getters to end 9th February, 2008
