Last night was a red letter night for this sire as he featured heavily in the pedigree of the winners of 2 Group races Flying Ricciardo - The Group 1 Megastar winner beating Australian Greyhound of the Year Simon Told Helen CLICK HERE Flying Stanley is the grandsire of his dam via another great performer and underused stud dog the recently deceased Glen Gallon Sentenced - brilliant winner of the Group 2 Queensland Derby CLICK HERE He is by Jury (by underrated sire Cosmic Chief) out of Velocity Spice a city winning daughter of Bekim Bale Flying Stanley appears in the pedigree of Jury who has started off his stud career very well with 2 handy litters both by bred by his owner Steve Williams The connection to Tony Brett is even more ironic as not only was Sentenced trained by him but his granddam Velocity Zoom was a sister to Glen Gallon who was also by trained him Whats interesting is that Glen Gallon is by Flying Stanley is out of a daughter of Bombastic Shiraz Flying Stanley as everyone is probably aware is the dam sire of upwardly mobile sire Zambora Brockie who ironically is by Nitro Burst, a son of Bombastic Shiraz, who is already the sire of some Group winning greyhounds in Australia Flying Stanley as we know was a great USA race dog but he himself was a moderately performed sire however his genetics are certainly shining through in 2nd & 3rd generations when combined with our leading lines of Bombastic Shiraz, Brett Lee and Head Honcho Coming from the great Irish damline of Maythorn Pride tracing back to Millie's May, it's little wonder he is proving to be a major influence down the track
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