Dancin Lou, Bettors Delight colts top London Sale

D A Lets Boogie (Dancin Lou-Sports Beauty) and Gridiron Seelster (Bettors Delight-Glamour Seelster) tied for the highest price of the London Classic Yearling Sale on Wednesday (Oct. 18).

Day two of the harness racing sale’s second edition saw the colts each bring $200,000 and more than $3.5 million change hands on 140 yearlings.

D A Lets Boogie, consigned as hip 170 by Dean and Ashley Wilson, went to Determination. He is the fourth foal from Sports Beauty, a Sportswriter mare, who also produced Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots final D A Mcdreamy. He was one of 15 yearlings by Dancin Lou sold at the sale and helped his sire to one of the highest averages among studs.

Gridiron Seelster is from the Ontario Sires Stakes Gold-winning dam Glamour Seelster. The Jeremes Jet mare produced Grandeur Seelster, who won her Grassroots Final at two and placed at three this year. Determination also bought Gridiron Seelster, consigned by Seelster Farms as hip 224.

Parlay King (Bettors Delight-Boadicea, hip 266, $87,000), Sassy N Sweet (Musical Rhythm-Cool Creek Breeze, hip 284, $85,000), and Kankoon (Trixton-Karoon, hip 308, $80,000) rounded out the top five prices on day two.

The sale concluded with total of $7,579,000 paid for 284 yearlings – an average of $26,686.62. Pacing colts were the highest-valued, selling for an average of $32,297 on 76 horses. Stonebridge Farm pulled in the highest price per offering among consignors with $47,125 apiece. Musical Rhythm’s one offspring sold for $85,000 put him at the top of the averages, but Bettors Delight progeny were the most lucrative among sires with more than one yearling – his 23 went for $44,391 per horse.

To read about day one, click here.

To view full sale results, click here.

by Nicholas Barnsdale, for Harnesslink