DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 28, 9 July 1903, Page 13

DUNE DIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs. Wright, Stephen c on, and Co. report as follows :—: —

There was a very small yarding of hoises at our sale last Saturday, and only one lot of draught horses was forward, this being a consignment of four, the property oi Mr William Smvth, of Goie Included in the number was a \ei y good six-year-old hea\y draught gelding, for which £55 was bid at the hammer, but this offer was not accepted, the owner's reserve being £60. Another of Mr Smyth's geldings fetched £46, while a mare realised £44, and in another lot a brown filly, rising thiee years, unbroken was sold at £40. There was a good demand for spi ing-van horses, und a number of sales were effected at up to £35. For the higher classes the bidding was not so brisk, although about a dozen changed hands We quote : Superior young draught geldings, £50 to £55 ; extra good, prize horses, £56 to £60 : medium draught mares and geldings, £38 to £48 ; aged draught mares and geldings, £25 to, £35 ; upstanding carriage horses, £30 to £35 ; wellmatched carriage pairs, £70 to £90 ; spring-cart and butchers' order-cart horses, £22 to £32 ; tram horses, £16 to £25 ; litrht hacks, £10 to £15 ; extra good hacks, £18 to £25 ; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, £3 to £8.