Horse Racing
His brothers Prince Fahd and Prince Ahmed, both deceased, were involved in thoroughbred horse racing. Similarly, Prince Faisal owns Belgrave Bloodstock and races in England.
Faisal bin Salman has 12 horses in training, with Paul Cole, Sir Mark Prescott and John Gosden in England; Aidan O'Brien in Ireland; Jean-Claude Rouget in France; and Graham Motion in the U.S.A. It is reported that his best horse is Last Second, dam of Aussie Rules. She won both the Sun Chariot Stakes and Nassau Stakes in 1996. Prince Faisal also won the 1995 Cherry Hinton Stakes with another horse, Applaud. Last Second also became his most successful broodmare and resides with his eight other mares at Kirtlington Stud in Oxfordshire. His racing manager is British trainer Paul Webber.
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