UK sales company Greyhound Trader recorded a record online auction total and record individual sales-price for a greyhound over the same weekend.
With 25 greyhounds for sale over a 48-hour bidding period, all eyes were on top Irish performer Scaglietti who achieved the phenomenal price of £45,100 in the auction. Purchased by former Central Park promoter Roger Cearns, he is sure to compete for all major honours including next years English Greyhound Derby where he is currently 66/1 for outright success.
Ricky Holloway has been confirmed as the new trainer and he said “It’s very exciting and once we’ve gone through the ridiculous situation of waiting two weeks to give him a second inoculation, we’ll crack on with him. It might be tight but maybe the Kent Derby at Central Park next month would be a starting point as the track would suit.
I’m bordering on the top six at the moment (about 60 points off it) and it’s a challenge to set for the rest of the year. I’ve had a greyhound from Pat Guilfoyle before and one thing for certain is that the dog will come over in fantastic condition.”
Elsewhere in the auction, March 2022 bitch Lucky Chloe sold for £10,000 to British Breeding hero David Titterton. A winning 28.73 debut performance at Tralee was enough to convince the former footballer, and she will head to Perry Barr trainer Ian Walker with a likely challenge at the Bet365 Puppy Oaks on the cards.
Recent 28.23 Cork trialist State Mint sold for £9200 to join the training ranks at Romford, whilst the Ballymac Cooper x Ballymac Merkle younger sister to St Leger hopefuls Ballymac Katie, Ballymac Taylor and Garfiney Blaze sold for just over £6000 to Kevin Hutton. Amazing Quest was another greyhound popular within the auction platform. With his away and gone style, the £4400 purchase will continue his career at Romford for trainer Darren Whitton.
With further sales post-auction, Greyhound Trader confirmed it was a record sales for them. James Corden said “I’m delighted with how it went, and also that it is now over! Scaglietti of course was the talking point of the weekend and some late bids saw his value rise over £45,000 which is incredible. Hopefully there are people who see this and we can get more greyhounds of this quality in the future auctions.
Keep an eye out also for Pape Di Oro who will no doubt be a good Open Racer heading to the UK, whilst Ballymac Madgie and Ballymac Bingley are two young greyhounds who might not hit the track until next year but will hopefully turn into nice types.”
With sales totalling in excess of £100,000 – there is clearly life left in our old sport yet!
Full results for the auction:
- Scaglietti – £45,100 SOLD
- Blastoff Mac – £7050 *NOW SOLD
- Pape Di Oro – £9050 *NOW SOLD
- Ballymac Madgie – £11,100 *NOW SOLD
- Ballymac Bingley – £5450 *NOW SOLD
- Ballymac Lolls – £6150 *NOW SOLD
- State Mint – £9200 SOLD
- Stonepark Molly – £7000 (Reserve-£8000)
- Lucky Chloe – £10,000 SOLD
- Roanna Lucas – £4050 *NOW SOLD
- Amazing Quest – £4400 SOLD
- Gracebridge Jet – £4800 (Reserve-£6000)
- Tommys Victory – £2850 (Reserve-£5000)
- Dromana Meg – £2350 (Reserve-£3000)
- Roanna Ginger – £3201 *NOW SOLD
- Ballymac Turin – £3200 SOLD
- Tommys Heiress – £900 (Reserve-£2000)
- Intelligent Lad – £1200 (Reserve-£1500)
- Pomba Pete – £1150 (Reserve-£2200)
- Swanley Bolt – £500 (Reserve-£3500)
- Swanley Petunia – £650 (Reserve-£3000)
- Danesrath Finn – £2050 SOLD
- Glengar Fury – £800 SOLD
- Voltage Echo – £400 (Reserve-£500)
- Unnamed – £600 SOLD
The next Greyhound Trader sales will be a track sale at Towcester on Wednesday 20th September.
