Flying Paster

Flying Paster
Sire	Gummo
Grandsire	Fleet Nasrullah
Dam	Procne
Damsire	Acroterion
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	1976
Country	United States
Colour	Bay
Breeder	Bernard J. Ridder
Owner	Bernard J. Ridder
Trainer	Gordon C. Campbell
Record	27: 13-7-2
Earnings	$1,127,460
Major wins
	Balboa Stakes (1978); California Breeders' Champion Stakes (1978); Del Mar Futurity (1978); Norfolk Stakes (1978); Sunny Slope Stakes (1978); San Vicente Stakes (1979); Santa Anita Derby (1979); Hollywood Derby (1979); San Pasqual Handicap (1981); 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 Spectacular Bid, a future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee and a horse that The Blood-Horse magazine rated as America's 10th best horse of the 20th Century. Ridden by Don Pierce, in 1978 Flying Paster was the dominant two-year-old on the U.S. West Coast, winning six stakes races, usually with a powerful stretch drive. He became the first 2-year-old to be voted California Horse of the Year.

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 Santa Anita Handicap. Ridden by Chris McCarron in 1981, he started the year with wins in the San Pasqual and San Carlos Handicaps, then made it three in a row by capturing the San Antonio Handicap.

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 heart attack on August 22, 1992, at Cardiff Stud Farm in Creston, California.

Pedigree

Pedigree of Flying Paster, bay stallion, 1976
Sire Gummo	Fleet Nasrullah	Nasrullah	Nearco
		Nasrullah	Mumtaz Begum
		Happy Go Fleet	Count Fleet
		Happy Go Fleet	Draeh
	Alabama Gal	Determine	Alibhai
		Determine	Koubis
		Trojan Lass	Priam
		Trojan Lass	Rompers
Dam Procne	Acroterion	Hillsdale	Take Away
		Hillsdale	Johann
		Stage Fright	Native Dancer
		Stage Fright	Petrify
	Philomela	Tudor Minstrel	Owen Tudor
		Tudor Minstrel	Sansonnet
		Petrovna	Blue Peter
		Petrovna	Straight Sequence (family: 22)

References

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