Shifting Sands, a fathier stallion in the stable of Sturg Ganna, came from the lineage of Virtuous Velocity and Imperial as his parents. The birth of Shifting Sands occurred in the year 29 ABY, and he was piloted by the jockey Pinrado Noza in a competition at the Canto Bight racetrack not long before the events of the Battle of Crait.