Grace Hayden continues to follow in her father’s footsteps into the sports industry and lands a new role as a presenter.
The 22-year-old budding TV presenter has landed a new job as lead presenter for Hong Kong-based international digital platform Racing X.
Her role will see her travel the world covering different sporting events in places such as Saudi Arabia, New Zealand and Las Vegas.
While she may be the daughter of legendary cricket star and commentator Matthew Hayden, 53, Grace insists she has plenty of experience for the job.
“All the iconic sporting cricket grounds were my playground growing up, so that was all I knew,” Hayden told The Daily Telegraph.
‘Now that I work in sport and cricket, I realize how incredible my father was, still is, but he was in his craft, and I didn’t appreciate that when I was little.
Grace Hayden (pictured) has landed a new job as lead presenter for Hong Kong-based international digital platform Racing X.
“Dad is always very proud of me in everything I do.”
Grace quickly made a name for herself in the television and fashion industries.
Her prominent role as an ambassador for Channel Seven’s Oaks Day in 2022 propelled her into the spotlight.
She has since become part of the Seven horse racing team, where she works as a fashion reporter during coverage of the spring carnival races.
She is currently dating Wilson Statham, son of Queensland cotton magnates Danielle and David Statham.
Grace and Wilson went public with their romance at the Randwick races on April 6 and were spotted a month later holding hands in a Sydney pub.
Wilson’s parents, Danielle and David, own and operate Sundown Pastoral Company, a family-run but privately owned cotton and farming business.
His empire spans more than 70,000 hectares in Queensland and northern New South Wales.
While she may be the daughter of legendary cricket star and commentator Matthew Hayden (left), Grace insists she has plenty of experience for the job.
Grace quickly made a name for herself in the television and fashion industries.
Grace’s romance with Wilson blossomed just months after her rumored affair with Campbell Brown, Hawthorn’s leading star turned racing pundit.
The pair were racing ambassadors for the Ladbrokes Summer Racing Festival in Tasmania and were pictured dancing together at the festival’s launch in November, days after reports emerged that Brown’s marriage had ended.
The couple were understood to have known each other for the past two years and both attended the Royal Ascot races in June 2023.
The Herald Sun reported in November that Brown had reportedly told his wife that he had “fallen in love” with her.
The couple, who share three children, have been together for 19 years and married for ten. His wife was reportedly “devastated” and “shocked” by the breakup.
“It’s all so raw and came out of nowhere,” a source told the Herald Sun at the time.
The couple’s oldest son, Boston, is six years old and the middle son, Baker, is two. The youngest, Bailey, was born in August 2023.
She is currently dating Wilson Statham (right), son of Queensland cotton magnates Danielle and David Statham.