Initial Spark 

'Sparky' is now retired & has a lovely home

Black Bitch - Spiral Nikita x Castlerea Delia - October 2000

Sparky herself is an Open race winner over 640m, and a winner of races ranging from 415m-640m. One of the friendliest characters you are likely to meet, Sparky is a great stamp of a bitch with a lovely temperament.

She was retired after a return to the track proved (as expected) that her broken toe would hinder her race ability.

Her littermates include

Special Trick £10,000 Victor Chandler Grand Prix Winner, Gymcrack Runner Up, Gordon Hodson Puppy Memorial Winner, Ballyregan Bob Memorial Winner, Sussex Cup Finalist, English Derby Semi Finalist, Irish Derby Quarter Finalist, St Leger Finalist & Corn Cuchullian Finalist. Retired to stud.

Connoisseur Winner 1st Round English Derby 2003 FTON, Winner Jem Racing Super Paws, Golden Crest Finalist & Racing Post Maiden Derby Finalist (beaten favourite).

Shaun Me Boy Prolific Open race winner, Won opens at 7 different tracks. Retired to stud.

Special Event Runner Up Wimbledon Puppy Derby & Winner Stow Stayers Cup Final beating Soviet Gypsy and Rapid Best.

Sparky is sired by Spiral Nikita, a fantastic racer and stud dog who is now establishing himself as a fantastic damsire too. His daughters have thrown the likes of Droopys Maldini, Droopys Marco, Airtech Rapid & Like a Shot.

She is out of top open race producer Castlerea Delia, who has thrown numerous open racers and top grade winners in all her litters. Delias offspring have won opens at 23 different tracks and she finished 2nd in the Open Race Dams table (regularly ranked in the top 5).

Sparkys Dam Castlerea Delia also produced:

Matriatch Great EP and the ability to win over 4 and 6 bends, OR Winner Stow & Hove, 28.96 for 475m W'stow, Ocean Trailers Puppy Stakes Finalist.

Special Treat Great EP, OR winner 4 & 6 bends, Winner of Oaks 1st round, 29.00 475m Stow, 39.96 640m Stow.

Sparkys Pups

1st Litter - Sired by Geldrops Touch, Born December 2004

Unfortunately Sparkys entire 1st litter were all very nervous, there were 6 of them in total (2 dogs and 4 bitches), all fawn or black. We kept a fawn bitch 'Cleo' (Special Chick) but she never made it as a racer, as her cautious personality got the better of her.

Two of the litter did make it to the race track, Geldrops Shadow who races in Belgium and Geldrops Spark who won the Geldrop Puppy Derby and is now retired to stud in France.

2nd & Final Litter - Sired by Droopys Kewell, Born October 2005

Sparkys second and last litter was a total of 7 pups (5 dogs and 2 bitches) in a variety of different colours; Blue, Black, White & Blue, plus a White dog!

All of the litter made the race-track, except for a Black dog 'Beanz' (Special Effect) who was somewhat a peculiar character. He would very much have liked to race but sadly he just was not very fast, so we homed him.

Star of the litter Ants Gunner, known as Patch to his friends was top grade at Walthamstow and the highlight of his career was winning an Open Race in a time of 29.05. Patch came off sore at Harlow in late 2008, so has gone home to live it up as a pet with his owners.

As well as 'Beanz' we also kept 'Sapphie (Special Skylar) a very mischievous white & blue lady. Saph had ability, but her immature and playful attitude to everything she did meant that she was never destined to fulfil the potential she had. So after a 17 race long career (in which she did Win a race I must add!) she too was sofa bound!

In late 2007 we decided it would be best to retire Sparky from the breeding paddocks and find her a home. Thanks to Joy at WGOA, Sparky met her new owner Janice and they clicked instantly...

Read more about Sparkys Retirement on our 'Ex-Racers' page.