Tooru Hayashi

Tooru Hayashi is the kind of guy who never makes the highlight reel but quietly makes everything work. Born in Hyogo in 1979 and raised in Chiba and Ibaraki, he went from Kaisei High School and the University of Tokyo to become a racehorse trainer, which means his office is a stable at four in the morning and his performance review happens every race day. Trainers are the unsung architects of the whole operation: they're the ones who decide when a horse is ready, when it isn't, and how to coax the best out of an animal that can't tell you what's wrong. His back-to-back Yasuda Kinen wins with Songline in 2022 and 2023 did the talking for him, and honestly that tracks perfectly. This is a craft-first, ego-last profession, and I respect the hell out of people who live it that way. The horse either runs well or it doesn't; no PR spin fixes that.

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Tooru Hayashi is a Japanese racehorse trainer born on April 4, 1979, in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He works in the thoroughbred training profession, a field that demands daily hands-on evaluation of horses in pre-dawn stable hours. A University of Tokyo graduate who rode for its equestrian club, he qualified as a JRA trainer at Miho in 2017, opened his stable in 2018, and won the Yasuda Kinen in 2022 and 2023 with Songline.

Name (English)

Tooru Hayashi

Name (Japanese)

林徹

Reading

はやし とおる

Born

April 4, 1979 (age 47)

Origin

Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Racehorse Trainer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Goat

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9E%97%E5%BE%B9%20(%E7%AB%B6%E9%A6%AC)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121354712

Tags

• From Hyogo Prefecture
• Racehorse Trainer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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