[3] The colt raced in the colours of the Ballymacoll Stud's owner Michael Sobell and was trained by Dick Hern at West Ilsley in Berkshire.

[4] On his three-year-old debut, Sallust ran in the 2,000 Guineas Trial at Kempton Park Racecourse in April when he sweated up badly before the race and finished unplaced.

At the Derby meeting at Epsom Downs Racecourse the colt started a 14/1 outsider[5] for the second running of the Group Three Diomed Stakes over 8+1⁄2 furlongs on 7 June.

[4] 17 days after his win at Epsom, Sallust was sent to France for the Group Three Prix de la Porte Maillot over 1400 metres at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris and won from Tamiran and Calahorra.

[6] Sallust returned to Britain in late July for the Group One Sussex Stakes over one mile at Goodwood in which he was matched against the 2000 Guineas winner High Top.

In 1972 the independent Timeform organisation gave Sallust a rating of 134, making him the equal top-rated three-year-old colt in Europe, alongside the sprinter Deep Diver.