_A record price, £2OOO, has been paid for Mr A. Williams’s champion greyhound track racer, Mick the Miller. It was bought by Mr A. H. Kempton. vice-chair-man of South London Greyhound Racecourses, Ltd., on behalf of his wife. Mick the Miller, bred in Ireland, ■ won the National Cup at Shelbourne Park. Dublin and. on coming to England, ran a record heat (29.825ec) in the Greyhound Derby at the White City last July. He also won the final, and his other successes include winning the InternaConal Greyhound Derby Sweepstakes at Wimbledon in .October. Previous high prices have been Cormorant, an Irish two-year-old £1000; Hungwell, a winner of the Water) 100 Cup, £llO2,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20962, 27 February 1930, Page 4
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