DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 30, 23 July 1903, Page 13

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs Wright, Stephcuson, and Co report as dol!ows — There was a very poor entry for tin's week's sale about half a dozen draughts and less than 29 hacks and

I harness horses. The draughts offeiod were all aged, and S sales were effected as follows :— One gelding each at £50, jj £48, £31, and £2b respectively. There is a very strong f demand for young mares and geldings and good fillies, | and numerous sales have been made in the country dvi- I ing the week at prices langing from £45 to £si> for { geldings, and iiji to 70gs lor good tNree-yeir-old fillies ( The market is aetne lor good >oung draughts, both broken and unbioken, but for stale and aged horses it is decidedly dull, and \alnes of the latter description are distinctnely m fa\oi of the bu\ <r . We quote: Superior young draught geldings, £.10 to £5.) , extra good, prize horses, £.1(5 to £fJ3 , medium draught mares and geld- | ings, £36 to £I<S , aged do, £25 to £35 ; upstanding j carriage hoises, £30 to £35 , well-matched cainage ! pairs, £70 to £00 , sirong spimg-\an horses, £33 to £42 , milk-cut and butehcis' order-cart horses, £20 to £27 , tram hoises, £18 to £2S , light hacks, £10 to £15 , e\tia good hacks, £18 to £25 , weedy and aged hacks and harness hoises, £1 to £8.