SPRING HORSE FAIR AT CAMBRIDGE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2199, 1 October 1907, Page 1

SPRING HORSE FAIR AT CAMBRIDGE.

A SUCCESSFUL SALE

Tho Farmers’ Co-operative Auctioneering Company (Hamilton, Auckland) report: AVe held our annual spring horse fair at Cambridge last week, and have to report’'a most successful sale; in fact tho most successful horse salo we have yet held. Til ere was a largo attendance each day, buyers being present from all parts of the province, as well as from Gisborne, Palmerston North, and Christchurch. The feature of the sale was the spirited bidding that ruled night through on all riseful softs. Immediately a horse was brought into the ring, a bid was forthcoming, and in nearly every case there was not a dwell until the horse was knocked down. As will be seen by the number submitted to auction, and the number sold, the majority of tho vendors realised that they were getting good value, and wisely sold. The quality - of the homes yarded this

year was q •up to that of previous years. though perhaps thcro were not qu.le so many heavy draughts. Tho yarding, of draughts on the second day oi the sale was a sight well worth seeing. AVo doubt if a finer lot of draughts have ever been \iirdod in any sale ring in tho colony. That day 209 horses were on the lines, practically all 3 and 4 year-olds, and all in tip-top condition. Tho 4-year-olds, as usual, wore eagerly competed for, any with a bit, of weight about them making well over £SO. This year there was an absence of the usual number of weeds. The light horses yarded were a good, useful lot. Tho salo opened with tho Bank of New Zealand Estates Company’s horses, the draught' brood mares being tho first to be submitted. These were a really good lot, tho majority being descended from Every AlacLean’s stud', buyers being aware that such a chance of getting really well-bred draught, mares seldom occurs, operated freely. Tjie mares averaged £33 13s, the best and younger mares making £4l to £G3 ; others, £29 to £37 ; old mares £IS to £2l; two aged light draught, geldings, £2O and £24; station hacks, £lO to £18; hack brood mares, £5 to £ls.

The yearling draughts averaged, £ls 4s, the best making from £ls to £2l; others, £9 10s to £77; 3-year-old draughts avemged £34 8s; tho host, £35 10s to £37 10s ; others £3O to £34. A'earlin.g light horses, £4 to £9; 3-year lights, £lO to £l7. Unbroken draughts, from other clients —4-year-old medium draughts off Galatea station, £25 10s to £35 10s; 3 and 4-year old heavy dmughls, £42 10s to £46. One particularly, choice 3-year filly, by Greenhill Laddie, and from a Goodfellow pedigree maro made £59; 3 and 4-year medium draughts, £2B to £35; light dm lights, same age, £22 to £2B. Unbroken light horses—l-year unbroken light horses, off Galatea station, £lB 10s to £24 10s; others 3 and 4-year-old hacks, useful sorts, £l2 10s to £ls ss; others, £8 to £ll 10s. Broken horses —3 and 4-year-old ■heavy draughts, £43 to £57; the majority of the 4-year-olds making from £SO to £57.

Three-and 4-year medium draughts, £32 10s to £42; light draughts and spring-cart sorts, £2O 10s to £33. Hacks —Good sorts and well paced hacks, £2p 10s to £3l—one cob making £35; rough hacks, £l2 10s to £l9; harness horses, best, £2O to £29; others, £9 to £lB, according to age; cobs and ponies, £5 to £. weeds 20s to 40s.

Altogether we yarded 890 horses, comprising 223 unbroken draughts and hacks, .31)0 broken draughts, 337 broken hacks and harness horses, and sold 205 'unbroken lforses, 297 draughts, and 253 light: horses.