2017 Stallion of Distinction: Salute the Truth, continued...
in a stall and then walked him right out into the arena.” Over time, it seems that Tom had even more of Willie’s personality, as Liz re- fers to him as “king of the farm.” And just like Steuart and Willie, Liz and Tom moved up the eventing levels together from Beginner Nov- ice through Ad- vanced. “He may not be the fanciest horse on the fl at, or the cleanest show jumper, but when he gets in that start box for cross-country, you couldn’t
ask for
a better, or safer, horse to be sitting on,” she said. Liz says the highlight of their partner- ship together was jumping around Fair Hill International’s CCI3*. Sound familiar? “I’ll never forget coming through that fi nish
Jazz Napravnik’s Farah T Salute (Salute the Truth x Farah’s Moment) was Salute the Truth’s only racing offspring winning several stakes races over hurdles.
fabulous racing lineage. “I was 19 at the time, and wanted to breed a steeplechase horse, and loved Willie’s big stature and personality. He was a good jumper and his stud fee was cheap!” said Jazz. She bred Farah’s Moment to Willie in 2002 producing the stakes winning steeplechas- er Farah T Salute. Although the plan all along was to run the fi lly over fences, Jazz started her on the fl at track and fl at point-to-point races.
“She was
my fi rst racehorse as a trainer and she really helped me make a name for myself,”
she
remarked. By the time the fi lly was
line off of cross-country. I was one of the later rides and more accomplished riders before me had their troubles on course, but there wasn’t one point on cross-country that day that I was worried we weren’t going to make it home clear.” She added, “He made it all feel so easy and had enough energy to drag me the whole way on that long walk back to the stabling.” After a few more seasons competing at the
Advanced levels, Liz semi-retired Tom to her mother’s farm in Scottsville, Virginia, where he is being leased to young riders, and teaching them the ropes of the lower levels. Sport horse breeding was defi nitely Willie’s
calling, though Maryland racehorse trainer Jazz Napravnik sought out the stallion based on his
fi ve years old, she seemed to lose the heart to continue running on the track. Jazz wasn’t hap- py with her jumping style at this point and sent her to her mom to retrain and sell as an event horse. T e more jump work Farah T Salute did, the more her form improved. Nine months lat- er, she was entered in a few hurdle races at local point-to-points and fi nished fi rst or second at most of them. “She liked to run out in front the whole time and it worked for her,” Jazz explained. But that strategy did not work as well in the big sanc- tioned races. “I had my jockey start to hold her through most of the races and then let her run hard to the fi nish. After that, she was hitting the board regularly.” T e 2003 chestnut mare won $91,700 from
fi ve wins, three places and four shows for own- er Flying Horse Farm. In 2009, she broke her
maiden winning the Palm Beach Filly and Mare Hurdle Stakes. T e following year she won the Crown Royal Hurdle Stakes, fi nished second in the Valentine Memorial Sport of Queen’s Hurdle Stakes and third in the Peapack Hurdle Stakes. “T en she just started slowing down so I took her home to breed,” Jazz explained. T at was in 2011 and her fi rst foal was by Albert the Great. “Connor is super sweet, kind and pretty but never wanted to run,” she said adding that his talent was in the show ring where he won often. “I sold him last year to a friend down the road and she trail rides and foxhunts.” As for Farah T Salute, now 15, she is Jazz’s top pony horse and babysitter. “I also teach a lot of junior riders how to jump hurdles on her. She’s so good for them!” Beyond racing and eventing, Salute the
Truth’s off spring can be seen in the hunt fi eld, dressage ring, out on the trails, in the show ring and even as movie stunt horses! Read more sto- ries about his legacy on
equiery.com.
In the end, it was Steuart who was there at his death, as he had been at the stallion’s start. “For a while my name was synonymous with Willie’s… which was really cool for a while,” he concluded. But then again, Salute the Truth will also always be synonymous with eventing and Maryland.
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