Dunedin Horse Saleyards.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9, 1 March 1900, Page 15

Dunedin Horse Saleyards.

Messrs. Wright. Stephenson, and Co. report as follows :—: — There was a goodly array of horses for Saturday's sale, chiefly light harness sorts, and most of them were of very ordinary class, whilst a good number were pronouncedly inferior. The few draughts forward were just useful farm horses. There was a very fair attendance of buyers, but as most of them were either in quest of really good heavy draught mares and geldings, or first-class thoroughly broken in light harness horses, the amount of business done was on a much smaller scale than at the sales of the two proceeding weeks. A consignment of 30 mixed hacks and light harness horses, a rather common lot, from North Canterbury, was the principal entry, but as there were several up-country rabbit export agents in the market, fully half of the draft was sold at very moderate values. The unsold portion of this consignment will be disposed of at next Saturday's sale. In light harness horses a few of the principal sales were the following, viz. : Three useful harness geldings, four years old, by General Tracey, at LlB, Ll7, and Ll4 respectively ; a very smart pony cob gelding, four years, by Nimrod, at Ll4 ; a good milk cart horse at L 23, and a very showy nuggety spring van gelding at L 34 ; a number of horses suitable for the rabbit export trade at L 8 to Ll4. We Btrongly recommend consignments of first-class young buggy horses for next Saturday's sale, as we have customers in want of thoroughly broken in animals of this class. First-class heavy draught geldings for town work are also wanted, as are useful farm horses for harvest work. Our only sales in the draught class this week were two, viz. : One gelding at L4O, and another at L 36, both good, useful horses and young. We quote as follows : — Superior young draught geldings, L4O to L 45 ; extra good prize horses, L 46 to LSO ; medium draught mares and geldings, L3O to L3B ; aged do, L2O to L 27 ; upstanding carriage horses, L 25 to L3O ; well-matobed carriage pairs, LSO to L6O ; strong spring van horses, L 22 to L2B ; milk cart and butchers' order cart horses, Lls to L2O ; tram horses, liß to Ll2 ; light hacks, L 6 to LlO ; extra good do, Lls to L 25 ; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, L 2 to L 5.