Flying Paster
Flying Paster | |
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Sire | Gummo |
Grandsire | Fleet Nasrullah |
Dam | Procne |
Damsire | Acroterion |
Sex | San Carlos Handicap (1981) San Antonio Handicap (1981) |
Awards | |
California Horse of the Year (1978) Leading sire in California (1987-1991) | |
Last updated on May 31, 2007 |
Flying Paster (1976–1992) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse.
Background
Flying Paster was bred in California by his owner, Bernard J. Ridder of the Knight Ridder newspaper chain, and was named for a printing process mechanism.
Racing career
An outstanding racehorse, Flying Paster was foaled in the same year as
With Pierce in the saddle to start his three-year-old campaign, Flying Paster won February's San Vicente Stakes, was third in the March San Felipe Stakes, then captured the West Coast's most important race for three-year-olds, the Santa Anita Derby, then captured the Hollywood Derby by 10 lengths. Sent to the Kentucky Derby, Flying Paster was the second choice among bettors behind the heavily favored Spectacular Bid. However, the colt suffered a cut in his right foreleg during the race and finished fifth. After tying the Pimlico track record for the first quarter, Flying Paster finished a distant fourth in the Preakness Stakes. He did not run in the third and final leg of the Triple Crown series, the 1½ mile Belmont Stakes.
Racing at age four, in 1980 Flying Paster finished second four times to Spectacular Bid, including in the Grade I
Stud record
Retired to stud duty, Flying Paster sired 48 stakes winners and was California's leading sire from 1987 through 1991. His progeny included Grade I winner Cats Cradle and the Jack Kent Cooke-owned California Champion Flying Continental, whose wins included the Jockey Club Gold Cup. The 2015 U.S. Triple Crown winner, American Pharoah, is a fourth-generation descendant.
At the pinnacle of his breeding career, Flying Paster died unexpectedly at age sixteen from a
Pedigree
Sire Gummo |
Fleet Nasrullah | Nasrullah | Nearco |
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Mumtaz Begum | |||
Happy Go Fleet | Count Fleet | ||
Draeh | |||
Alabama Gal | Determine | Alibhai | |
Koubis | |||
Trojan Lass | Priam | ||
Rompers | |||
Dam Procne |
Acroterion | Hillsdale | Take Away |
Johann | |||
Stage Fright | Native Dancer | ||
Petrify | |||
Philomela | Tudor Minstrel | Owen Tudor | |
Sansonnet | |||
Petrovna | Blue Peter | ||
Straight Sequence (family: 22) |