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By Jackson Frantz
Fundraiser (Race 8 No12) is the stable’s best chance of success at
Caulfield on Saturday.
Tom Dabnerig from the
Helmet has come through his third-placed performance on return at Swan Hill earlier this month in good order.
“He’s taken great improvement from that run, he was carrying a big weight there and he was beaten all that far in a blanket finish,” Hayes told
Racing Pulse.
Hayes isn’t concerned by his galloper’s lack of exposure on soft ground, saying he has trialled up super at Tatura on a rain-affected surface this time in.
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Lindsay Park, on the outskirts of
Euroa.
Hayes had sold his chunk of the family’s famously successful
Barossa Valley property and taken the brand – as well as the earthmovers – to
Creightons Creek.
Melbourne and
Sydney.
Hayes would continue to lavishly improve the Euroa property but that day up on the hill, it was quite some sight, quite some vision.
There are other great training properties, but probably none like David Hayes’ masterpiece.
Hayes was in a slump at the time, mostly because the Barossa property hadn’t yet been sold and the cost of setting up Euroa had sapped Hayes’ ability to buy well-bred stock.