Career
A native of Brighton, Ontario, he began his career as a jockey. 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. In 1940, Hayward trained a horse in California for Canadian-born actor Victor Jory and later was hired by Muriel Vanderbilt Adams for whom he trained Miche.
1953 Derby Trial and Kentucky Derby
Eddie Hayward moved to the East Coast of the United States in late 1952 to take over as head trainer for Harry Gugenheim"s Cain Hoy Stable.
Besides Dark Star, among the other Cain Hoy horses Hayward would train were Battle Morn and Armageddon. The loss by Native Dancer would be the only one of his twenty-two race career that would see the horse be inducted in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
In the second leg of the United States. Triple Crown, Dark Star suffered a bowed tendon in the Preakness Stakes and finished fifth. The injury ended his racing career and he was retired to studies
He would add to his clientele with the Circle M Farm of Edward South. Moore and in the 1970s took over training of future Hall of Fame inductee Forego for the Lazy F Ranch stable when Sherrill Ward fell seriously ill in 1975.
Living in Franklin Square, New York, Eddie Hayward died in 1983 at age seventy-nine.
