Upsidedown*

Called the prodigious producer of champions, your pedigree reads like a “Hall of Fame.” You were one of the most versatile stud dogs in American greyhound breeding history. You were the sire of champion coursers and champion track dogs.

And rightly so! Your breeding was one of the best ever to come out of the British Isles. Your sire was Mutton Cutlet, who may have been the greatest sire in greyhound worldwide history. There was not one greyhound in your last 34 ancestors that could be crossed out as mediocre. You might have been the heaviest outstanding greyhound sire in the annals of breeding for track and coursing. Your racing weight was 80 pounds, and you stood 28.5 inches tall.

You did not boast of an outstanding track record, however. In fact, your greatest triumph may have come when you won the 1934 Waterloo Cup. Your first and only major engagement in the United States.

Nonetheless, you were a great producer, and your offspring proved it. Your pups dominated the American coursing fields in the late 1930’s, while on the tracks they more than held their own.

Eddy Lee won the 1936 Sapling Stake, while Wealthy Flirt took the futurity Stake that same meet; First Son copped the 1936 Butte Inaugural, and Grey Tick the Wonderland Inaugural in 1936. Your progeny kept up their onslaughts on the coursing field in 1940 when Jackie Upside, Flossie Skyduster, Good Sally and Tuffy Down captured major stakes.

The list goes on and on. There were many Mutton Cutlet sons and grandsons imported into this country, but none of them earned the fame that you did!