DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3038, 21 February 1899, Page 8

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Weekly Repobt. Mes&re Wright, Stephensoc, and Coreport aa follows :— Tbe eatriea for this week's *ale were limited to eight or tea asofat draughts and about the same number of the commoner class of hacks and harneea horse?. There Was a meagre attendance of the public, too. aad consequently very little basteegß was done. In draughts the following eales were effected : One heavy geldlog, Bjts, at £35 ; one four-year-old filly, jaat broken, at £31 ; and two six-year-old ge.'diogi at £30 eaob, and one geldicg, aged, at £25. Of ligi t horses only three changed hands— one hack at £11, and another at £8, aod the third t £4: 10 a. There is a fair demand for youug draughts, but prices are not what they were, excepting in the case of extra heavy geldings, suitable for tbe town carriers This class of horse is soarce, and wanted, and first-class geldings are still saleable at £40 to £45. Good upstanding sprlng-oart horses are also very soarce, and command a ready sale at quotations. We quote an follows : Superior draught geldings, young, £35 to £40 ; extra good, a few pounds more ; superior young draught mares and fillies, £40 to £50; prize mares and fillies, L6O to £100; ordinary draught mares and geldings, £25 to £34 ; aged do, £14 to X2O ; young carriage and cavalry horses, £20 to £30; well-matched carriage pairs, £50 to' £80 ; strong spring-cart horses (young), £16 to £25; ordinary haoks and light harness horses, £8 to £14 ; weedy and aged backs and harness horses, £2.