Demand for Draught Horses.
The strong demand now existing for draught horses has brought home to many fanners the folly of their past efforts in horse-breeding. Far too many in this district thought only of breeding racehorses or hunters, apparently bc liev : " • the one thing necessary to achieve succe» : in this direction being to mate i.ur.-.-s of any class with a thoroughbred stallion. The result has been the production of a class of animal of a nondescript character for which there is no demaud, and that are at present a hopeless drug in the market. In Canterbury the craze has been to breed trotters, but the standard necessary to ensure success on the track has risen so much of late that ordinary young stock from trap and hack mares is already unsaleable. oti the other hand, those farmers and breeders who have pursued the even tenor of their way. and regularly bred their mares with the object of producing horses of a useful stamp suitable for farm or dray work have done well and now that the demand is greater than the supply exceptionally good prices are obtainable. Good sorts four to eight years old, command £22 to £25, and superior animals as much as £2B or £:>o.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 52, 26 June 1896, Page 4
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208Demand for Draught Horses. Hastings Standard, Issue 52, 26 June 1896, Page 4
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