DEMAND FOR HORSES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 162, 25 June 1935, Page 11

DEMAND FOR HORSES

Breeders Reap Rewards

Ample support for statements made in the “Herald” recently regarding the growth in demand for horses was given by Mr W. C. Wallace, who presided at the annual meeting of the Clydesdale Horso Society of New Zealand at Palmerston North recently. According to Mr Wallace, horses were never dearer than they are to-day. Horse-breeding during the past two years, said Mr Wallace, had been a payable proposition and those who had kept on breeding throughout the lean years weie reaping their reward. The Australian demand was increasing. During the past two years 321 stallions, colts, males, and fillies had been exported to the Commonwealth, whereas iu the preceding two years only 55 had been exported. The figures’ did not include several geldings, which had also been shipped from New Zealand. Mr Wallace urged all breeders to breed for soundness and quality and stated that so long as that was done the demand for horses would steadily increase.

“It is pleasing to see the increased exhibition of horses at ail shows, where competition to-day is keener than ever before Mr Wallace added. “The last Koval Show at Invercargill was the best exhibition of Clydesdales which has probably ever been seen in the Dominion.” At the Royal Show at Tomoana this year it is to be hoped that Clydesdales will he entered ki force, and that breeders will endeavour to make an even better «howi»g.