| Crimson Satan | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Spy Song |
| Grandsire | Balladier |
| Dam | Papila |
| Damsire | Requiebro |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1959 |
| Country | United States |
| Colour | Chestnut |
| Breeder | Crimson King Farm |
| Owner | Crimson King Farm (Peter W. Salmen, Sr.) |
| Trainer | Gordon R. Potter Charles Kerr (9/62) & J. W. King Martin L. Fallon, Jr. (10/63) |
| Record | 58: 18-9-9 |
| Earnings | US$796,077 |
| Major wins | |
| Garden State Stakes (1961) Hawthorne Juvenile Stakes (1961) Pimlico Futurity (1961) Lafayette Stakes (1961) Laurance Armour Handicap (1962) Clark Handicap (1962) San Fernando Stakes (1963) Charles H. Strub Stakes (1963) Massachusetts Handicap (1963) Washington Park Handicap (1963) Michigan Mile And One-Sixteenth Handicap (1963) | |
| Awards | |
| American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt (1961) | |
Crimson Satan (1959–1982) was an AmericanThoroughbred Champion racehorse.
Crimson Satan was a chestnut horse bred and raced by Peter W. Salmen Sr.'s Crimson King Farm atLexington, Kentucky. His dam was Salmen's Argentine-bred mare Papila, and his sire wasCharles Fisher's good runner Spy Song.
Trained in his two-year-old season byGordon Potter, Crimson Satan earned 1961American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt honors.
At age three, Crimson Satan competed in each of theU.S. Triple Crown races. He finished sixth in theKentucky Derby, seventh in thePreakness Stakes, and a close third in theBelmont Stakes. In an overall difficult year, the colt won the 1962Clark Handicap but was disqualified from his win in theJersey Derby and set back to third. He won the June 23Leonard Richards Stakes atDelaware Park Racetrack, but the win was negated following a positive drug test. As a result, trainer Potter was suspended for the remainder of 1962,[1] and Charles Kerr took over as the trainer of Crimson Satan in September 1962.[2]
Racing at age four in 1963, Crimson Satan earned five wins and five seconds in major stakes races at tracks across the United States. While racing in California, where he won theSan Fernando Stakes andCharles H. Strub Stakes, he was handled by Kerr's assistant, J. W. King. He also had wins in Chicago'sWashington Park Handicap and Boston'sMassachusetts Handicap and set a newtrack record of 1:40 3/5 on dirt in winning theMichigan Mile and One Sixteenth Handicap at Detroit. In October 1963,Martin Fallon took over as trainer but after disappointing results, Crimson Satan was retired in early 1964.
Crimson Satan stood atstud at his birthplace in Lexington, Kentucky. Although a successful sire of numerous stakes winners such as Brilliant Sandy and Krislin, he is best remembered as thedamsire of the 1990Breeders' Cup Mile winnerRoyal Academy as well as multipleGraded stakes winners Terlingua and Mt. Livermore. Bred toNijinsky, Crimson Satan's daughter Crimson Saint produced Laa Etaab, who sold at the 1985Keeneland yearling sale for $7,000,000.[3]
Crimson Satan died in 1982 and is buried at Crimson King Farm in Lexington, Kentucky.[4]