DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS WEEKLY REPORT.

Otago Witness, Volume 25, Issue 2321, 25 August 1898, Page 15

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS WEEKLY REPORT.

Messrs Wright, Slephenson, and Co. report as follows: —

Business at this week's sale was very slack, but this was due to the unsuitability of the horses forward, and not to any falling off in the demand. Most of the draughts entered were aged, and some were of very indifferent class. l ? or these reasons the amount of business done under the hammer was small, but aft;r the sale a few deals were effected privately. There was no scarcity of buyers for youbg, powerful draught mares and geldings, suitable for town work, and for useful young plough horses, and consignments of these can be strongly recommended for this market. The principal sales in the draught horse class were as follov/: — Good six-year-old niare at Mi; two good aged geldings, the one at and the other at £29; and several of medium class at from JE2O to £2S. There were no good hacko or light harness horses forward this week. Hefcrring to the announcement in last week's report regarding the sale of the GlenIcenich stud of Clydesdale horses on the Bth prox. it has been decided by Mr J. E. Mackenzie that it is to be held at our Gore Bazaar EuEaar instead of at the homestead as at fiist intimated. This alteration will prove a great com enienee to intending purchasers. We quote: Superior draught geldings, young, i' 33 to £40; extra good a few pounds more; superior young draught niarea and iillics, £40 to £50, prize mares and fillies, £60 to £300; ordinary draught mares and geldings, £25 to £34 ; aged draught mares and gsldings, £14 to £20; young carriage and cavalry horses, £20 to £30 ; well-matched carriage pairs, £50 to £80; strong spring-cart lioracs (young), £16 to £25; ordinary hacks and light-harness horses, _8 to £1-1; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, £2 to £5.