INQUIRY LACKING FOR HORSES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 25, 22 October 1937, Page 6

INQUIRY LACKING FOR HORSES

Dnll Market at Stortford Lodge Fair . TOP PRICE £66 A lack of inquiry accounted for the very slack and dull market for to-day's horse fair at Stortford Lodge. The yarding consisted of 155 broken and 68 unbroken sorts and included some goodquality horses. The large attendahce included very few buyers. Values were well down on the rates made during the early winter saies. Except for a few special entries there was very little eompetition and tho selling was lifeless, some of the entries being passed without a hid offered. - The top pxice of the sale was £60 for a heavy, well-bred Clydesdale maro, offered on account of Mr W. J. Wall, of Hastings. The principal offering was ten draughts brought up from the Ashburton district specially for the sale. Ranging from all ages, nearly all of this entry were straight from woxk and the top pxice was 56 guineas for a registered pedigree mara in foal, which was not sold. As the sale progressed the few actual buyers present hecame indifferent to tho selling, with the result that there was a dropping off from the values made in the earlier stages of the sale. "You are not buying them. You are trying to steal them from us," remarked one auctioneer in attempting to enliven the selling. Over two-thirds of the offering were passed, and in order to make saies an auctioneer told- vendors that they would have to change their ideas of values. Heavy hacks used to station work made the best ^.selling of the day and the best of them" ranged to £17 10/-. Most of the spring-carters broken to all classes of work and useful for small farmers were not wanted, xnaking values well below the reserves. Realisations Were as under;-— DRAUGHTS, From Ashburton and straight from work, an exght-year draught mare, broken to all places, and due to foal on November 16 to Scotland Superb, sold at £47 10/-. From the same district a five-year draught mare, siXed by Fabric Champion, also straight from work and broken to all places, being staunch and in first-class working condition, was passed at £46. Out of the same working team, a sixyear draught mare, broken to all places and a good leader, being guaranteed, was sold at £47. From the sama. source a nine-year draught gelding broken to all places, being a good sbafter and used to beavy carting in the handling of grain, was passed at £37 10/-. Also from Ashburton, a three-yeaT stauncb draught mare, being a well builfc youngster and the makings of a heavy xeliable worker, sold at, £48. Also from the South Island, a solidly built seven-year draught gelding, broken to all places and a good shafter, sold at £45. A good-mouthed nine-year draught mare, broken to all places and guaTanteed quiet, brought £40. Bred by Sir Heaton Rhodes andsired by Scotland 's Hero, an aged draught pedigree mare, foaled in 1920 and due to 'foal in December, sold at £49. Included in the South Island offering was a seven-year draught mare, showing particularly good breeding and broken to all places, wMch sold at £55. From tho South lsland, a registered pedigree five-year draught mare, sired by Allandale Chatham, being an outstanding Clydesdale showing the breed chaTacteristics, was passed at 56 guineas.

A well-bred unbroken draught filly. being the final entry ia the Soutft Island offering, was passed at £46. An aged draught gelding, being a good shafter uted to all chain work and broken to all places, guaraateed . sound, was passed at £21. In from Meeanee, a six-year draught gelding, broken to all places and used to farm work, was passed at £40. A thoroughly quiet three-y^p draught gelding, broken to all places* and quiet, but not having good lege, being sickle-hocked, was passed at £25. On account of Mr P. Halliday, Patoka, an aged half-draught mare, broken to all work except shafts, being a most useful hard-working soi't and thoroughly staunch, was passed at £20. On account of the same vendof another similar built staunch aged mare, straight out of work, was also passed. Also from the same soutco and straight out of work, a heavier built eight-year mare in splendid working condition and a useful fajm worker, met the market at £31. On account of Mr W. J. Wall, a particularly staunch, well-bred, eight-year Clydesdale mare, broken to all work and guaranteed, topped the nrarket at £66. This mare was in splendid condition and a good type of the hreed. N

A four-year light draught, broken to all places, was passed at £32 10/-. SPRIN G-CARTERS AND HACKS. A five-year mare, broken to chains and to the pack, being useful for all collar work, making a good light spring-carter, was passed at £16 10/-. A seven-year hack gelding in off a station, broken to the saddle and a free mover, sound, easy to catch and guaranteed quiet, sold without fault, brought £8 15/-. . A good-mouthed nine-year mare, used to puck-work and chains, but a plain looking sort which did not attraet, was passed at the only bid of £6. An eight-year spring carter, just weaned a foal, being broken to all chain work and guaranteed, was passed at £15. A six-year gelding making a good shepherd's hack, being a free mover and staunch made one of the best early saies to realise £12. An aged cob, broken to barness and ihe- saddle, was passed at £6 10/-* k_ A four-year hack gelding broktn lo ijLi-,.

harness and quiet, was passed at the low figure of £21. A seven-year quiet stylish sturdy cob, broken to harness and a good jumper, was passed at £15. ' A staunch nine-year hack gelding being an unusually good type and useful for solid work in the saddle, was passed at £12 10/-. Broken to all places, a stylish well built good mouthed ten-year heavy hack gelding was passed at £10. A good weight-carrying five-year hack gelding, reliable in harness, well built and staunch, was passed at £17 10/-. On account of Mr R. Ensor, Waiwhare, a ten-year gelding, used as a shepherd's hack in heavy station work and quiet, brought £11. A quiet three-year spring-eart filly, broken to chain work. suitable for a small farmer, was passed at £3'2 10/-. An aged light hack, sturdy and a good hill worker, used to working among eattle, a good jumper, sold cheaply at £7. PONIES. A four-year child's pony, reliable and quiet, was passed at £7 10/-.