A TIMELINE OF DAVID HAYES AND HIS RACING ACHIEVEMENTS
- 1983 – At age 21, David joins Lindsay Park full time and works alongside his Hall of Fame racing trainer Colin as assistant trainer
- 1990 -1991 – Took over the training operation at Lindsay Park at the start of the racing season – aged 28 – following Colin's retirement
- 1990 – Sets a world record of six Group winners at Flemington on Derby Day
- 1990 – Wins the Cox Plate and the Japan Cup with Better Loosen Up
- 1991 – Wins the Australian Cup with Better Loosen Up
- 1991-1992 – Trained an Australian Record 306 winners
- 1993 – Fraar wins Caulfield Cup
- 1994 – Wins the Melbourne Cup with imported stayerr Jeune
- 1996 – 2005 – Accepts an invitation to train in Hong Kong – where he won two trainer's premierships and trained 458 winners
- 2005 – After nearly a decade he returns from Hong Kong to Lindsay Park
- 2006 – 2007 – Hayes's horses win 11 Group One races and more than $19 million in prize money
- 2008 – Became the youngest person to be inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame, joining his father Colin
- 2008 – Sells his share of Lindsay Park Stud – renamed Cornerstone Stud – to his nephew Sam Hayes and business partner
- 2010 – Lindsay Park moves from South Australia to Victoria with a new purpose-built facility established at Euroa
- 2015 – Spillway wins the Australian Cup, and Criterion wins the Queen Elizabeth Stakes and Caulfield Stakes
- September 2019 – Confirms his return to the Hong Kong ranks for the start of the 2020-21 racing season
- July 13 2020 – Hayes's Hong Kong Jockey Club licence will become effective.