Lindsay Park trainers Ben and JD Hayes have continued the household custom of profitable Melbourne’s premier two-year-old race.
Little Brose supplied the Hayes brothers with their second Group 1 win in taking out the Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) at Sandown on Saturday.
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David Hayes, the brothers’ father, holds the Blue Diamond document of six wins, together with a win with Ben and nephew Tom Dabernig, whereas David’s father Colin received the race on three events.
Ridden by Michael Dee, Little Brose ($9.50) scored by a size from Don Corleone ($10) with Arkansaw Child ($10), a stablemate of the winner, a protracted head away third.
The Hayes brothers received their first Group 1 race with Mr Brightside within the Doncaster Mile at Randwick final April and Ben Hayes couldn’t include his delight at Saturday’s success.
“I am shaking. I assumed he was adequate to win and I’ve felt like vomiting all day,” Hayes stated.
“It is good to be profitable the Blue Diamond and conserving that household custom going.”
Hayes stated he and his brother sat down on the finish of final season to work out what they might enhance after their first 12 months in a coaching partnership.
One of many issues they centered on was altering how they labored their two-year-olds which has seen the pair prepare seven particular person winners this season.
“We acquired our two-year-olds barely mistaken and we modified a few issues and I feel our outcomes have spoken for themselves,” Hayes stated.
“That is our seventh particular person winner and most of them have been listed and group races so we improved on that.
“I feel it’s big going ahead. Very thrilling and thrilled for my complete household.
“We work so arduous and to do it in our second 12 months of coaching as a partnership, it is a massive thrill.”
Dee is beginning to fulfill the promise he confirmed when he arrived from New Zealand as an apprentice to trip for Mick Worth,
Saturday’s victory on Little Brose was the jockey’s eighth at Group 1 stage.
“You get used to it once they occur, and also you take pleasure in it once they come, however you get introduced again right down to earth quickly sufficient,” Dee stated.
“He is a horse that takes every little thing in his stride. He by no means turns a hair. He simply canters round to the gates pretty and he is simply such a phenomenal colt to trip.
“I am certain it is upwards and upwards from right here.”
