Zipping Ruger's 29.36 eight length winning romp on Thursday night is believed to be one of the fastest 520m times posted at Wentworth Park by a greyhound having its first start.
Shakey Jakey is the fastest first start Wentworth Park winner clocking what would be a long-standing track record of 29.07s in 2014.
Trained by Jason Magri, Zipping Ruger was second to the catching pen before heading off litter sister and kennelmate Zipping Tikka and roaring to the finish for a "group one" run home time of 11.49.
Zipping Ruger's half-brother Zipping Megatron won his maiden race at Wentworth Park in 29.42 but that was at his second start, while Dalwhinnie, who won his Wentworth Park maiden in record time of 29.04, was also making his second appearance at the races.
Dalwhinnie had been beaten by Jungle Johnny on debut, with the winner, also a debutant, clocking 29.59.
Jason Magri launched the careers of five of six siblings by Zipping Kyrgios from his former top notch race bitch Zipping Mitzy at Wentworth Park on Thursday, with Zipping Reaper the only other member of the litter, all blue in colour, scratched from his race.
"Zipping Ruger has always been the fastest, but they will all win races, with Zipping Sako, who finished strongly when second to that dog, likely to become a stayer,'' Magri said.
"While all those pups I raced on Thursday night had been to Wentworth Park for a couple of post-to-post hand-slips, none of them had previously been over 520m.''
Joe McFadyen, whose dog Canya Handle It took his Wentworth Park tally to five wins and four placings from a dozen starts with his success last Thursday night, was a branch bank manager until he became a greyhound trainer.
But McFadyen, who now has 12 greyhounds in his kennels at Kariong, on the central coast, was always destined to become involved in the sport.
"I grew up around greyhounds because my father, Allan McFadyen, owned them, while my uncle Sid Lentholm was also a dog man,'' he recalled.
"I got my first greyhounds in 1999 when I bought two youngsters, but after they had been broken in they didn't chase properly.
"So my uncle Sid, who lived at Panania, instructed me to bring them to his place every Wednesday and Saturday so we could reducate them.
"Sid was a roof tiler by trade and one of his apprentices was Dean Swain, who later became a leading greyhound trainer.
"I was living at Alexandria and would drive to Sid's twice weekly and we would take my two dogs to Russo's trial track to break them in again.
"One of them, Pound Of Fire, finished up winning eight races, so we must have done something right.''
Canya Handle It's tenacious performance to come from behind and run down odds-on favourite Dennis Keeping on Thursday night was not the dog's fastest WP win but was his best.
Once considered suspect at 520m and purely a front-runner who needed to lead to win, Canya Handle It trailed Dennis Keeping to the back straight before pulling to the outside and sweeping around the pacemaker to score by two lengths.
McFadyen said: "I was watching from the catching pen and when they went past me I thought to myself, that's the end of that, we won't be winning from there.''
Although McFadyen obviously has a soft spot for Canya Handle It, he rates Nangar Jim, with whom he won Maitland and Temora Cup finals, as the best dog he has trained.
"Nangar Jim was the best because he had good box manners but he wasn't the quickest I've had, that honour goes to Ali Tango.
"He has earned just over $100,000 but if he possessed the box speed of Nangar Jim and Canya Handle It his record would be far more impressive.''
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