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Salmon-Trout
Sire
St Leger
(1924)

Salmon-Trout (also known as Salmon Trout 1921 – after 1938) was a British

St Leger as well as being placed in the Newmarket Stakes and the Champion Stakes. In 1925 he finished second in the Ascot Gold Cup
. After his retirement from racing he stood as a breeding stallion in England and South Africa and had some success as a sire of winners.

Background

Salmon-Trout was a big, powerful, good-looking

Dick Dawson at Whatcombe, near Lambourn in Berkshire.[5]

He was sired by

Oaks Stakes in 1916, and was a daughter of the 1000 Guineas winner Electra.[6] Salamandra was bought by Lord Furness at Newmarket in December 1920 for 16,000 guineas with Salmon-Trout in utero.[5][7]

Racing career

1923: two-year-old season

Salmon-Trout made his first appearance in the five

4/1,[9] he led from the start and won "very comfortably" from Hurstwood.[8]

At the end of the year Salmon-Trout was rated one of the Aga Khan's most promising juveniles,[10] and in the official Free Handicap he was ranked third behind his stablemates Mumtaz Mahal and Diophon.[11] His two wins earned his owner £2,290.[12]

1924: three-year-old season

Salmon-Trout's owner Aga Khan III

On his second-season debut, Salmon-Trout finished unplaced behind Green Fire the

2000 Guineas winner Diophon was never in contention and finished sixth behind Sansovino who won easily from St Germans and Hurstwood.[15]

On his first appearance after his poor run in the Derby, Salmon-Trout contested the Princess of Wales's Stakes over 1+1⁄2 miles on 3 July at Newmarket in which he was ridden by Vic Smyth and started at odds of 5/1.

Hurst Park, in his warm-up race for the St Leger, Salmon-Trout was partnered by Vic Smyth in the Richemount Three-Year-Old Stakes but failed to overhaul the improving Watford (ridden by Smyth's brother) and was beaten a head into second place.[19]

In the 149th running of the St Leger over 14+1⁄2 furlongs at

bookmakers had lengthened their odds against Salmon-Trout on the basis of supposed "inside information" suggesting that the colt could not win, and some sustained heavy losses on the race as a result.[5][22]

Later that month the colt reappeared in the Kinsclere Plate at Newbury, but was surprisingly beaten by the outsider Depatch.[23] On his final appearance of the season, Salmon-Trout finished third behind the four-year-olds Pharos and Parth in the Champion Stakes over ten furlongs at Newmarket in October.

1925: four-year-old season

Salmon-Trout remained in training as a four-year-old in 1925, with the Ascot Gold Cup as his principal objective. In the Gold Cup on 18 June he finished second to Santorb, beaten a length by the winner, with St Germans in third.[24]

Assessment and honours

In their book, A Century of Champions, based on the Timeform rating system, John Randall and Tony Morris rated Salmon-Trout an "average" winner of the St Leger.[25]

Stud record

After his retirement from racing Salmon-Trout became a breeding stallion and stood in England for eleven years before being exported to South Africa in 1937. His last reported foals were born in 1938. The best of his offspring were King Salmon (Coronation Cup, Eclipse Stakes) and Salmon Leap (Coronation Cup, Goodwood Cup).[5]

Pedigree

Pedigree of Salmon-Trout (GB), bay stallion, 1921[1]
Sire
The Tetrarch (IRE)
1911 		Roi Herode (FR)
1904 		Le Samaritain Le Sancy
Clementina (GB)
Roxelane War Dance
Rose of York (GB)
Vahren (GB)
1897 		Bona Vista Bend Or
Vista
Castania Hagioscope
Rose Garden
Dam
Salamandra (GB)
1913
St Frusquin
(GB)
1893
St Simon
 Galopin
St Angela
Isabel Plebeian
Parma
Electra (GB)
1906　 		Eager Enthusiast
Greeba
Sirenia Gallinule
Concussion (Family 19-c)[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "Salmon-Trout pedigree". Equineline.
  2. ^ "Racing News". Otago Daily Times. 15 April 1937. p. 7 – via Papers Past.
  3. ^ a b "The World of Sport". Auckland Star. 19 July 1924. p. 6 – via Papers Past.
  4. ^ "Stud Notes". The New Zealand Herald. 22 December 1923. p. 14 – via Papers Past.
  5. ^
    ISBN 0-354-08536-0
    .
  6. ^ a b "The Twinkle - Family 19-c". Thoroughbred Bloodlines. Retrieved 2013-09-29.
  7. ^ "Sports of All Kinds". Otago Daily Times. 27 December 1923. p. 4 – via Papers Past.
  8. ^ a b "Turf Notes". Auckland Star. 22 December 1923. p. 8 – via Papers Past.
  9. ^
    ISBN 978-1-873626-15-3
    .
  10. ^ "The Turf in England". The New Zealand Herald. 19 December 1923. p. 14 – via Papers Past.
  11. ^ "Late Sporting". The Evening Post. 5 June 1924. p. 6 – via Papers Past.
  12. ^ "Turf Notes". Auckland Star. 19 April 1924. p. 21 – via Papers Past.
  13. ^ "Sporting". The Press. 3 June 1924. p. 12 – via Papers Past.
  14. ^ "The Turf". Otago Daily Times. 3 July 1924. p. 5 – via Papers Past.
  15. ^ "Sansovino's Derby". The Evening Post (New Zealand). 19 July 1924. p. 20 – via Papers Past.
  16. ^ "The Turf". Otago Daily Times. 28 August 1924. p. 8 – via Papers Past.
  17. ^ "Racing News". The Evening Post (New Zealand). 4 July 1924. p. 8 – via Papers Past.
  18. ^ "The World of Sport". Auckland Star. 4 October 1924. p. 3 – via Papers Past.
  19. ^ "Turf Notes". Auckland Star. 18 October 1924. p. 57 – via Papers Past.
  20. ^ "Epidemic of Coughing". The Evening Post (New Zealand). 11 September 1924. p. 12 – via Papers Past.
  21. ^ "Turf Notes". Auckland Star. 1 November 1924. p. 21 – via Papers Past.
  22. ^ "Notes and Comments". The Evening Post (New Zealand). 10 March 1925. p. 10 – via Papers Past.
  23. ^ "Sporting". The Press. 24 November 1924. p. 12 – via Papers Past.
  24. ^ "Races in England". The Evening Post (New Zealand). 19 June 1925. p. 6 – via Papers Past.
  25. ISBN 1-901570-15-0
    .
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