SALE OF DRAUGHT STOCK.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8495, 16 May 1889, Page 2

SALE OF DRAUGHT STOCK.

There has not been of late years any extreme margin of profit between the cost of raising and the^elling value of high class draught horses having substantial qualifications for stud purposes. ■ There appears, however, to be a revival of a healthy sentiment regarding the breeding of first-class draught horses, and certainly Otaao breeders seem now to havethe promise of benefits which should accrue from long, but hitherto ill-repaid efforts. By the Mararoa, which sailed yesterday, two animals purchased by Mr Archibald M'Lean, of Napier, .were shipped; and. while it is to be regretted that they should have been deported from the Southern province, it is satisfactory to know that they do not leave the colony. 'l'his sale of Pride's Darling and the Marquis of Salisbury as the show yard credentials of the animals will prove, must be regarded with real but disguised satisfaction by some of our prominent breeders of draught houses Pride s Darling was first prize brood mare twice at the Ofcago Agricultural and Pastoral Society's show, and first three years in succession at tha Taieri exhibitions. No mare has been so much reared of late years as Pride by intending exhibitors at our leading exhibition. The colt (bought by Mr M'Lean) Ma?quis of Salisbury, u7 L 1 0 o r£ ! Sal^ b? ry' was foaled °& 15th November 1886, and is therefore two years off He has an unbeaten, record, having been first and winner as a yearling- of Sires' Produce at Dunedm 1887, first at Dun?SSS %h "5? at- Tt ieri as a two-year-old in 1888. The Marquis shows all the characteristica of impressiveness prominent in the famous old horse Lord Sahsbury, his sire, and promises ta grow up au exceptionally aassive animal He chV^TT^ -bosie> the Lord- Salisbury chest, forehand, ana quarters; and should Mr M Lean send him to Southern shows next year, n^f qU3LWllltrOableall-CODlers * the ring.' Doubtless the pnces-150 guineas'for Pride's Damng and-300 guineas for the. Marquis o£ and Mr Cullen, to pars with the animals.