Promising 2yo colt Salvador set to debut

While he passed through a ready-to-run sale without meeting his reserve, two-year-old Salvador is showing enough promise for Wendy Roche to be considering a tilt at a race worth more than 10 times his price tag.

The trainer bought the colt for $46,000 from the Inglis Classic yearling sale with the intention of selling him at their ready-to-run sale, but he was passed in at $55,000.

Roche decided to hang on to the Magic Albert colt – affectionately known as Albert – who is set to make his debut in Saturday’s Golden Gift (1100m) at Rosehill.

Roche says the sales-restricted $500,000 Inglis Nursery over 1000m on December 17 is a possible target.

Salvador had his first public hit-out in a barrier trial at Warwick Farm on November 17 when he he finished fourth, crossing the line alongside the Gerald Ryan-trained Pymble and the Hawkes Racing-trained Reflectivity who are both entered in the Golden Gift.

“He weighed 526kg that day. He’s not a little boy,” Roche told AAP.

Now trimmed to 515kg ahead of his first race, the colt continues to improve, Roche said.

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“This horse has always shown promise,” she said.

“He has to do it on the racetrack.

“He did it in a trial. It was a synthetic track but he doesn’t like the synthetic track so that’s another factor.”

Roche said Salvador was underdone during his work at the ready-to-run sale where he covered 200m in 10.96.

The sale’s top buy, a Written Tycoon colt knocked down at $310,000, breezed up in 10.97.

“My horses just go there to be athletes. At the end of the day if I don’t sell them I’ve got to race them and other people have got to race them,” she said.

“They want a racehorse not just a horse that’s going to run quick time and then never do anything.”

Roche also has Salvador’s three-year-old half-brother, a Hinchinbrook colt, who is yet to trial publicly but showing “super” potential.