SPRING HORSE FAIR AT CAMBRIDGE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8546, 30 September 1907, Page 7

SPRING HORSE FAIR AT CAMBRIDGE.

The Farmers' Go-operative Auctioneering Company report as follows: — We held our annual spring horse fair at Cambridge last week, and have to report a most successful sale; in fact, the most successful horse sale we have yet held. There was a large attendance each day, buyers being present from all parts of the province, as well as from Gisborne, Palmerston North and Christchurch. The feature of the sale was the spirited bidding that ruled right through for all useful sorts. Immediately a, horse was brought into the ring, a b:'d was forthcoming, and in nearly every ease there was not a dwell until the horse was knocked down. As will be seen by the number submitted to auction and the number sold, the majority of the vendors realised tnat they were getting good value, arid wisely sold. The quality of the horses yarded this year was quite up to that of previous years, although perhaps there were not quite so many heavy draughts. The yarding of draughts on the second day of sale was a sight well worth seeing. We doubt if a finer lot of draughts have ever been yarded in any sale ring in the colony. That day 209 horses were on the lines practically all 3 to 4-year-olds, and all in tiptop condition. The 4-year-olds, as usual were, eagerly competed for, any with a bit of weight about them making well over £SO. This year there was an absence of the usual number of weeds. The light horses yarded were a good, useful lot. The sale with the Bank of New Zealand Company's horses, the brood mares being the first submitted. These were a really good lot, the majority being descended from Every Mac Lean's stud, buyers being aware that such a chance •of getting really well-bred draught mares seldom occurs, operated freely. The mares averaged £33 13s, the best and younger mares making £4l to , £63; others, £29 to £37; old mares, £lB to £2l; two aged light draught geldings, £2O and £24; station hacks, £lO to £18; hack brood mares, £5 to £ls. The yearling draughts averaged £ls 4s, the best making from £ls to £2l; others, £9 10s to £11; 3-year-old draughts averaged £34 Ss; the best, £35 10s to £37 10s; others £3O to £34. Yearling light horses, £4 to £9; 2-year light horses £5 5s to £9; 3-year lights, .£lO to £l7. Unbroken draughts, from other clients 4-year-old medium draughts off Galatea station, £25 10s to £35 10s, 3 and 4 year-old heavy draughts, £42 10s to £46. One particularly choice 3-year filly, by Greenhiil Laddie, and from a Goodfellow pedigree mare made £59: 3 and 4-year medium draughts, £2B to £35: light draughts, same age, £22 to £2B. Unbroken light horses —4 year unbroken light horses, off Galatea Station, £lB 10s to £24

10s: other 3 and 4-year-old hacks, useful sorts, £l2 10s to £ls ss; others, £8 to £ll 10s. Broken horses—3 and 4-year old heavy draughts, £43 to £57; the majority of the 4-year-olds making from £SO to £57. Three and 4-year medium draughts, £32 10s to £42; light draughts and spring-cart sorts. £2O 10s to £33. Hacks—Good sorts and well placed hacks, £2O 10s to £3l— cob making 1£35; rough hacks, £l2 10s to £l9; harness torses, best, £2O to £29; others, £9 to £lB, according to age; cobs and ponies, £5 to £8; weeds 20s to 40s. Altogether we yarded 890 horses, comprising 223 unbroken draughts and hacks, 330 broken draughts, 837 broken hacks and harness horses, and sold 205 unbroken horses, 297 draughts, and 253 light horses.