Salisbury is a flat racing only course and there are a mix of race types, but the majority are Handicaps and Maidens.
Salisbury has a reputation for being a course where racehorse trainers often run their top prospects before they go onto bigger races. In recent years, the 2006 Derby winner, Sir Percy, and the 2008 Oaks winner, Look Here, both won at Salisbury as two year olds. Recent St Leger winners Simple Verse (2015) and Harbour Law (2016) both won at Salisbury before their famous wins, and the 2000 Guineas winner of 2016, Galileo Gold, won at Salisbury the year before. Going back a bit further, Mill Reef and Brigadier Gerard won here in the 1970s before becoming equine superstars!
Top jockeys often race at Salisbury. Not many people know this but the legendary Lester Piggott made his public debut at Salisbury in 1948 in an apprentice jockeys race aged 12 and weighing just 5 stone.
