Tuesday, 26 August 2008:
Trainer
David Hayes will join his late father Colin in the Australian Racing Hall of Fame while jockey Damien Oliver is also among the seven inductees announced on Tuesday.
The two are the only new members still active in the sport.
The others to be officially inducted next Monday are champion race mares Tranquil Star and Wenona Girl, retired trainer Bob Hoysted, the late Frank Dempsey who rode the first of three Caulfield Cup winners in 1915 and pioneer breeder Percy Miller.
Colin Hayes was one of the inaugural inductees to the Hall of Fame in 2001. Each year members are chosen from trainers, jockeys, horses and associates.
David Hayes took over at the helm of his family's Lindsay Park breeding and racing centre in South Australia's Barossa Valley when his father retired at the end of the 1989-90 season.
He made an immediate impact, winning the 1990 Cox Plate and Japan Cup with Better Loosen Up. That year he also set a world record six Group winners in a day.
Hayes won every Melbourne and Adelaide trainers' premiership until the end of the 1994-95 season before moving to Hong Kong, where he trained 458 winners and won two trainers' titles.
Since his return to Australia in 2005 Hayes has re-established himself, winning the past two Melbourne trainers' premierships and a host of Group One races.
Oliver's inclusion follows that of Darren Beadman last year with the pair the only two riders to be inducted while at the height of their careers.
He came back from serious injury two years ago to re-establish himself among the elite and add to his Group One haul which currently numbers 78 including four Caulfield Cups, two Cox Plates and two Melbourne Cups.
Tranquil Star and Wenona Girl are among the greatest mares ever to race in Australia.
As a five-year-old, Tranquil Star won the Caulfield Stakes, Caulfield Cup, Cox Plate and Mackinnon Stakes. Wenona Girl was one of the country's great sprinters, winning two Lightning Stakes, but showed her versatility by winning the AJC Oaks.
A fifth generation trainer, Bob Hoysted prepared many champions but none greater than Manikato who was inducted into the Hall Of Fame in 2002.
Hoysted also enjoyed great success with the likes of River Rough, Rose Of Kingston and 1990 Caulfield Cup winner Sydeston.
Frank Dempsey's career included five Victorian jockeys' premierships in addition to his three Caulfield Cups and he also rode with success in England.
After his retirement in 1930 he became the official starter of the VATC and MVRC.
Percy Miller established Kia-Ora Stud in 1914. Kia-Ora produced 1925 Melbourne Cup winner Windbag and stood champion stallions Midstream and Delville Wood, horses which produced champions such as Hall of Fame galloper Shannon, Victoria Derby and Cox Plate winner Hydrogen and Melbourne Cup winners Delta and Evening Peal.
