Salute has produced many highly successful dressage & jumping horses. He is the sire of GV Stirling Stilton who was short listed for the Olympic Games in Athens and was the best placed Australian Dressage horse at the World Equestrian Games in Jerez 2002. Salute has also sired the 2005 National Grand Prix champion DP Christopher and Grand Prix horse Argentille Shamada as well as eventers such as Stirling Soux and Sydney Lights.

Salute's sire, Saluut, was a graded, 100 day performance tested Holstein stallion and an International Grand Prix jumper. Saluut received excellent marks in his Dutch performance test and was graded at the highest level. It is widely acknowledged that Saluut would also have been equally successful as a dressage horse. Saluut is a proven sire of world class offspring in both showjumping and dressage. Worldwide he has produced over 300 successful showjumpers, 294 dressage horses, 353 graded mares and 16 graded stallions.

Saluut's grandsire, G Ramiro Z has become famous worldwide. Ramiro descends from the famous male lineage combination Raimond - Ramzes - Rittersporn. The anglo arabian Ramzes represents one of the basic bloodlines on which Holsteiner breeding has been founded. Ramiro's dam, Valine, acquired international fame as a showjumper. She is the daughter of the reputable thoroughbred, Cottage Son, who became famous through his son Consul.

Ramiro was the most popular distributor of the Ramzes blood and the most frequented sire in Germany. The Dutch bestowed the title - 'Horse of the Year' on Ramiro in 1992.