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Newmarket training gallops Salse showed considerable promise but also appeared to be somewhat headstrong and hard to handle: he was therefore accompanied to the start by his trainer's assistant in his early races. The colt made his racecourse debut in a
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Salse was retired from racing to become a breeding stallion at the Side Hill Stud in
Newmarket. Despite recording all of his biggest wins over distances short of a mile he proved surprisingly adept as a sire of stayers. The best of his offspring included
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and started favourite ahead of seven opponents. He took the lead a furlong out and won by two and a half lengths from his stablemate
Reprimand. On 23 October Salse was sent to France for the Group 1 Prix de la ForĂȘt over 1400 metres at
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September Salse recorded an impressive victory as he drew away from his opponents in the closing stages and came home six lengths clear of Strike Force. The colt was then stepped up in class for the Somerville Tattersall Stakes at
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Warning at level weights, but finished eight lengths clear of the other six runners. Sixteen days later Salse started 4/5 favourite for the Group 3 Beeswing Stakes over seven furlongs on
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on 12 August saw a repeat of the
Beeswing result, with Salse beating Always Fair in a field which also included Indian Ridge. The Park Stakes at Doncaster saw the colt matched against five opponents headed by the
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racehorse. He was a consistent top-class performer who recorded his best results over a distance of seven furlongs. As a two-year-old in 1987 he won his first three races including the
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over one mile at Ascot. He took the lead in the straight but was unable to deal with the acceleration of his rival and was beaten into second, with
Persian Heights,
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September
Yearling Sale and was bought for $ 190,000 by the bloodstock agent Tote Cherry-Downes. He was sent to race in Europe where he raced in the colours of
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runner-up
Dabaweyaa. With Cauthen in the saddle he led from the start and accelerated clear in the last quarter mile to win "comfortably" by three lengths.
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and after taking the lead approaching the final furlong he pulled clear to win very easily by four lengths from Rawnuk. On 24 October Salse started the
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Princequillo, meaning that this stallion appear in both the third and fourth generations of his pedigree. He was also inbred 4 Ă 4 to Nearco.
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In the official International Classification of two-year-olds for 1987, Salse was given a rating of 116, nine pounds behind the top-rated pair
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380:. The independent Timeform organisation rated him on 118, nine pounds inferior to Warning, who was their best two-year-old of the season.
221:. He retired at the end of the year with a record of eight wins, four seconds and one third place: the only horses to beat him were
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he took the lead approaching the last quarter mile and won by one and a half lengths from Always Fair. The Hungerford Stakes at
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winner Carnauba. She was a great-granddaughter of the American broodmare Arena (foaled 1926) whose other descendants included
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On 24 September Salse faced Warning again when he was stepped up in class and distance to contest the Group 1
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finishing behind. In the Group 2 Challenge Stakes at Newmarket on 13 October the colt was ridden by
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meeting on 15 June when he started the 11/10 favourite for the
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on 13 June 2001 at the age of sixteen because of a "crumbling
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189:. In the following year he won the
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807:Timeform staff (1988).
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541:Supreme Novices' Hurdle
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468:Cork and Orrery Stakes
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325:over six furlongs at
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941:"Salse Stud Record"
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678:Prince John
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521:Air Express
506:Stud record
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419:soft ground
390:Royal Ascot
323:maiden race
297:Almutawakel
281:North Sider
263:Henry Cecil
199:Park Stakes
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59:Prince John
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856:2012-04-09
768:References
759:Salse was
556:pedal bone
552:euthanized
550:Salse was
545:Rekindling
241:Background
135:Major wins
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665:Gambetta
658:Nasrullah
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408:. In the
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274:Grade III
255:Keeneland
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251:yearling
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127:Record
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