 Unusual for the times, the dark chestnut with a large white blaze was born in 1886 in California.James Ben Ali Haggin had purchased his dam, Salina, and shipped her to his Rancho Del Paso with Salvator "in utero".Haggin had made his money in the California Gold Rush of 1849, so much of it he was suddenly one of the wealthiest men in America, and he used his new wealth to establish the biggest horse breeding operations in world history.