QUALITY IN DRAUGHT HORSES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 231, 3 September 1912, Page 6

QUALITY IN DRAUGHT HORSES

AN IXTERESTIXG COMMENT. ; A writer in the Oamaru "Mail,” j describing the sale of draught! horses at Melbourne and mentioning! that bidding was slack, only one J horse m twenty finding a buyer in ! the ring, -stated that some of the! colts only made the prices of indiff-1 crvnt geldings. Then he went on to; describe the horse that was wanted. 1 Here are his remarks: "Weight and! substance and bor.e is what is re- j quired. Those characteristics are J what made New Zealand Clydes-, dales popular in the Commonwealth, i but our breeders have drifted ■ toomuch to the lighter type. Th-.y earn breed that type themselves over, here, and we must get back to the < good, heavy sorts again with as little i delav as possible. No doubt the ■ •xp< rter> of about fifty Shire colts bad this in view in sending them out to tlm sale, but to me the Shire horses present wore disappointing. With one or two exceptioiis they lacked tlie weight and massiveness that I expected, and 1 do not think they are to be compared to horses of the Shepherd Lad type. Commenting on this, "Sonthlander" >n the "New Zealand Farmer,” says the foregoing remaiks are the convictions of a New Zealand? r in Melbourne, and surely they are entitled to some consideration. Among 1 the ales made 1 notice that Baron n (by Baron iyvie (imp.}, dam linn, also imported, brought tiOOgns. This v.as the champion colt of his rear in Otago, and he is regarded as beintr one of the new type. On the

otimi hand. Karainu Glenmarkie. b:ed on old type lines, bl ought XH> nr.-. He was champion at the Wai-

i’ampa Show last year, his sire being Rutherglen. and he was bied at Karam:>. Hastings. This illustrates that thcr.'are good horses to be found in the ranks o f the new type as there are in ilie old type. One always hears of the good ones, however, and it is in the many infeiior ones of the new t’-tm that has brought about the change that is unfortunately rather t. ./easily substantiated that the n. w ivp<> do not inherit all the virtues ‘ sui.porters would lend one to believe. ' r ’' ‘ unfortunate exaggerations induiired 1:1 ny disciples of the new tv'.e that all the old type horses v /re duffers were taken too literally. N. -v we have the new type, and the ’• -ult of the introduction is a'teady j-owing it<;lf. while the real heavy i I.o' that made New Zealand’s nr me 0.1 the Australian market, is. ' 1.1 the language cf the auctioneer.

A li of wethrrs from the

()■>. tiki districi. recently sold in / li'.miiid, icaliscd tl-e line average . • £T IT o. The Magistrate's Court will comat 10 a.m. to-morrow instead < f e. 30. The Magistrate is delayed ve> counti'v and Justices of the Peace Auil preside. Th? issue of the Georgian postage w.anips for Now Zealand (says a Londo.i correspondent, writ .ng on July should have appeared in July, ».-m a hitch has ceviiried. Originally Mr. Bertram MacKennal was cnt ..-ted with the commission for the ■jeumi. but this arrangement fell tin. ugh. and the New Zealand Go- •,. '.".cr.t'nt gave the work to Mr. Lini . Rich-mu n. . His destgn-ap-I ,dt? v i;i e Uoin.n.oii Govll np,. ~r . au j . ,-, to England for the d’e .-> be engraved—represented the King supra, rtcd by a Macri chief on the one side and an allegorical figure Of New Zealand on the other. The engraver’s proof. however, was not ■ (>V!!ii’:l sati-iactory. and negotiations V. ith anmiier firm were pend- : b — TI . s-ive word "insinuendo - was revived in the House of Rcpres mati'.es <-n Friday by Mr. J. A. Euiiaii. M.P.. and lie repeated the ch with apparent innocence, when .-■ Immim-l. More food for 1..,-... 'pt wn- provided by the inemi. < Auckland (’.-tit ral. Wishing in- ven emphatic. Mr. t.lover gave l( a ..um'dii.a suitemem an "equi-l val-.-ni ' denial.