Edward C. Hayward (February 13, 1903 – January, 1983) was a Canadian-born trainer in American

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best known for winning the 1953

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in which his colt Dark Star defeated

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Racing career

A native of

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, he began his career as a jockey. In 1918 he was galloping horses at a racetrack in

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where he would ride his first winner before leaving to compete in

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. He rode until around 1923 and after learning the art of horse conditioning for racing, in the latter part of the decade embarked on a training career. His first client was James Norris, owner of the

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of the

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, for whom he would win the 1938

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with Danger Point. In 1928, Hayward returned temporarily to Canada where he won the Whittier Park Handicap. In 1940, Hayward trained a horse in California for Canadian-born actor

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and later was hired by Muriel Vanderbilt Adams for whom he trained Miche.

1953 Derby Trial and Kentucky Derby

Hayward moved to the

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in late 1952 to take over as head trainer for Harry Gugenheim's

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. Besides Dark Star, among the other Cain Hoy horses he trained were Battle Morn and Armageddon. In 1953, he joined two others as the only trainers to ever win the

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and the

with the same horse. The feat had been accomplished by Hanly Webb in 1924 with

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and by Ben A. Jones, who did it twice, first with

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in 1948 and then with

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in 1952. In 1958, Jimmy Jones, son of Ben, became the fourth and last to do it when he won the two races with

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. As at 2011, Hayward's win with Dark Star in the Kentucky Derby remains one of the biggest upsets in the history of the race. The loss by Native Dancer was the only one of his twenty-two race career that saw the horse inducted into the

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. In the second leg of the U.S. Triple Crown, Dark Star suffered a

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in the

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and finished fifth. The injury ended his racing career, and he was retired to

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. Hayward resigned from Cain Hoy Stable in December 1954 and took over as trainer for a racing partnership headed by

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owner

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. He added to his clientele with the Circle M Farm of Edward S. Moore and in the 1970s took over training of future Hall of Fame inductee

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for the Lazy F Ranch stable when Sherrill Ward fell seriously ill in 1975.New York Times - July 2, 1978
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, Hayward died in 1983 at age seventy-nine.

References

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