SPRING HORSE FAIR.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 228, 25 August 1938, Page 5

SPRING HORSE FAIR.

The Associated Auctioneers report oil tlio first spring horse fair held at Feeding. A large entry of approximately 100 heavy and medium broken daughts, with approximately SO unbroken draughts and 30 to 40 hacks was submitted to a large attendance. The quality of both unbroken and broken draughts was not up to the usual standard for the spring fair. Included in the offering of broken horses were a large number from the South Island, lor which the market was inclined to be sticky; nevertheless, these vendors wore out to make sales at rates in the main down about £lO per head on last year’s spring fair. Local broken draughts of good quality, on the other hand, elicited keen competition, with values foT good sorts being approximately on a par with last year’s spring rates. The quality of backs throughout was not of a high standard, values being in sympathy with quality on offer? Tn the unbroken, section Air J. A. Mitchell,- of Longburn, had'.'the honour of topping the market for a rising 3-year stud-book filly at 35-£gns and a rising 3-year gelding realised £3O 10s. Quotations. —Light unbroken tidies and geldings, £l2, £ls, £l6, £l7, £lB, £2O, £2l, £22, £24 10s, £25, £25 10s. £26, £2B, £2B 10s. to £35 15s; broken draughts, £25, £27, £2B. £29. £3O, £3l. £32, £33, £35, £4O, £44, £45, t<> £52 10s; hacks and light harness horses, £B, £9, £lO, £l2, £l4, to £lB.