Fair Salinia

Fair Salinia
Sire	Petingo
Grandsire	Petition
Dam	Fair Arabella
Damsire	Chateaugay
Sex	Mare
Foaled	18 March 1975
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Oldtown Stud
Owner	Sven Hanson
Trainer	Michael Stoute
Record	8:4-2-0
Major wins
Oaks Stakes (1978) Irish Oaks (1978) Yorkshire Oaks (1978)
Awards
Timeform rating 114 (1977), 125 (1978)

Fair Salinia (18 March 1975–31 March 2004) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare best known for winning the classic Oaks Stakes in 1978. In a racing career which lasted from September 1977 until September 1978 she won four of her eight races. As a two-year-old in 1977 she won on her debut before finishing second in the Cheveley Park Stakes. As a three-year-old she finished second in the 1000 Guineas before being moved up in distance and winning the Oaks, Irish Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks. She was retired to stud at the end of the season and had some influence as a broodmare. She died in 2004 at the age of twenty-nine.

Fair Salinia was a bay mare with a small white star and white socks on her hind legs bred in Ireland by Major John de Brugh's Oldtown Stud. She was sired by Petingo, the leading English two-year-old of 1967 when he was rated the best horse in Europe by the independent Timeform organisation. His other progeny included the 1979 Derby winner Troy. Fair Salinia's dam, Fair Arabella was an American-bred mare who was a half-sister to the Prix du Moulin winner Faraway Son and the Prix d'Harcourt winner Liloy. As a descendant of the broodmare Judy O'Grady, Fair Arabella came from the same branch of Thoroughbred family 16-c which also produced Green Dancer, Solemia, Authorized, Dream Well and Makfi.

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