DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 23, 5 June 1902, Page 13

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Co. report as follows :—: — There was a capital entry of horses for this week's sale, chiefly of draughts, an,d on the whole they were a useful lot. The principal attraction in draught horses was Mr. James Jackson's team of 1.0 draught geldings from West Taieri. These were eagerfy competed for, and sold readily at from £30 to £44. Following Mr. Jackson's team cam© a consignment of five good geldings, submitted on account of Mr. William Smyth, of Gore, and these changed hands at from £34 to £47. A show-ring draught filly (four years old) was sold for £56, and about a dozen more draught mares and geldings on account of Messrs. Win. Bennett (,Winfield), Chas. Mullfn, (Tuapeka West), Win. Walsh (Dujiback), Johnson and Robertson, Anderson Bros, and others were soJd at from £30 to £45 for good farm horses, and at £11 to £25 for stale aged horses. There were not a great) 1 many light horses entered this week, but amongst those offered were tho Occident — Bay Bell two-year old colt, which we sold for £50 , and a very useful four-year-old buggy gelding, for £22 10s. A number of other common class harness horses, mostJ of them aged and some of them very stiff, found new owners ab from £3 to £8. Quotations : Superior yotung, draught geldings, £40 to £50 ; extra good, prize horses, £52 to £60 ; medium draught mares and geld'ihgs, £30 to £38 ; aged do, £16 to £25, upstanding carriage horses, £30 to £35 ; well-matched carriage pairs, £80 to £90 ; strong spring-van horses, £30 to £37 ; milk-cart and butchers' order-cart horses, £18 to £24 ; tram horses, £12 to £17 ; light hacks, £10 to £15 ; extra good hacks, £18 to £25 , weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, £3 to £7.