DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 27, 2 July 1903, Page 13

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report as follows :—: —

There was a moderate entry for this week's sale. .Some dozen draughts were offered, including a consignment of three superior Clydesdales and as they showed much quality and were in tip-top condition, they commanded a lot of attention and good competition They were sold as follows : 1 bay gelding, rising seven years old (a powerful shafter), at £60 ; brown mare, rising six years old (quality all over, but small), at £51 ; brown gelding, rising at three years (a very stylish colt with perfect action), at £45. For other vendors we sold two seven-year-old mares at £45 10s and £42 respectively ; three rising three-year-old fillies (medium draughts), at £40, £40, and £38 respectively ; and three aged geldings, at £38. £35. and £31. These were the principal sales in draughts. We also offered, on account of Mr. W. L. Siddels, Palmerston North, 12 strong harness horses (most of them rising three or rising four years old and fust broken in). They were good sorts, but on the young side for town use, and only a few of them changed hands at from £17 lOs to £32. The other horses offered were mostly aged and inferior, and only n few old ones were sold at low prices. We quote : Superior vornif draught geldings, £50 to £55 ; extra good prize horse, £56 to £60 ; mcd üm drajught mares and geldings, £38 to £48 ; aged draught mares and geldings, £25 to £35 ; upstanding carriage horses, £25 to £35 ; well-matched carriage pairs, £70 414 1 £90 : spring-cart and butchers' order-cart horses £22 to £32 ; tram horses, £16 to £25 : light hacks' £10 to £15 ; extra good hacks, £18 to £25 ; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, £3 to £8.