The end of the 2024 greyhound sales year finished in style for Greyhound Trader with a very successful sale at Oxford yesterday.
On a frosty morning at the Sandy Lane venue, 48 greyhounds were presented for sale by auctioneer Richard Walsh with 45 of them selling for a total over £90,000.
Top lot on the day was Givemethemoney who sold for £10,400. A July 2023 youngster, he recorded the fastest trial time of the day when beating his litter brother by 4 lengths in 27.04. He will be staying at Oxford with trainer Richard Baker.
The litter brother he beat, Gaza Boy, sold for £5600 to Kim Billingham-Hine’s kennels and for a Greyhound Trader first it was also their litter brother Wiffen World who recorded the second fastest time of the day and subsequently fetched the second most figure on the day when selling for £7400 to join Gemma Evans.
That meant that the top three lots on the day were three brothers! Bred in the purple (Ballymac Cashout x Nice As Ice – who was a former Open Racer for Jimmy Fenwick), it marked a good day for vendor Ronan McCusker from Northern Ireland who counts the famed Ice On Fire amongst his previous graduates.
Usual vendors were all represented on the day with Droopys Pupil, just a September 2023 son of old timer Droopys Scolari, selling for £4700 having left plenty at the start and getting up late on the line to win in 28.14. The Dunphy family also sold Droopys Fabiola for £4000 and Droopys Theorem for £3100.
The Kennedy family also had a successful day having sold Good Queen (£3400) and So Majestic (£3300) who combine some of their best breeding with Billys Diva and Good Cody represented in either of their pedigrees.
Overall, the sales success rate was 94% with many greyhounds joining the ranks of Oxford trainers.
