Dunedin Horse Saleyards.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 48, 30 November 1899, Page 15

Dunedin Horse Saleyards.

Messrs. Wright, Btephenson, and Co. report as follows :—: — We held our weekly sale on Saturday. The sale was well attended. There was a large entry of light horses, including some very fine upstanding harness sorts. The draughts, with one or two exceptions, were a very poor lot, most of them aged and otherwise faulty. The harness horses sold well, and so did the best of the draughts ; but there was very little demand for aged and inferior horses of either description. In upstanding harness horses the following were some of the principal sales, viz. : Bay gelding, five years, L 26 10s ; brown gelding, five years, L 25 ; bay gelding, four years, L 24 ; chestnut gelding, five years, L 23 ; bay gelding, four years, L2l ; brown gelding, six years, LlB ; pair brown five-year-old geldings, L 35 ; lady's hack, LI 3. In draughts the following sales were made : Bay gelding, five years old, L 44 ; bay gelding, six years, L4O ; brown gelding, L 36 10s ; and bay gelding, L 34. A number of useful tramway horses changed hands at from LlO to Ll3. We quote : First-class young draught mares and geldings at from L 45 to LSO ; good do, L4O to L 45 ; medium, L 34 to L3B ; aged, L2O to L3O ; upstanding yoang and sound Bpring-carters, at from L 25 to L3O ; good do, L2l to L 25 ; aged, Ll7 to L2O ; upstanding young carriage horses, suitable for pairs, at from L2O to L 25 ; good do, LI 7to L2O ; medium do and hacks, Ll2 to Ll6 ; ordinary station and shepherds' hacks, LlO to Ll2 ; aged but sound hacks, L 7 to L 9 ; inferior and weedy sorts, L 2 to L 5.