DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS

Otago Witness, Issue 2527, 20 August 1902, Page 18

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS

Messrs Wnght, Stophenson, Riid Co. repoit as follows — \Vo h^!d our weekly sale on Saturday, v,-hen we submitted the best selection o! draught lioises we have had since the winter sale. Between 30 nnd 10 draughts were offered, including the late Mr William Brown's team of eight mares and geldings from Matakanui , ■»!so consignments from the fiicoarton Coal Company, Messrs John Cameron, Charles Patterson, i. Collins, Charles Gamble, and others, There wa3 a very largo attendance- or draughthorse buyers, and the demand for sound young hor?ca was keener and prices better than at any sal© wo have held this year. As an indicationof the actual etato of tho market, we give the following paiticulars in detail of the late Mr Biown'a team, which, we may remark by the way, was only in working condition and not by any means got up for s.tle — Xo. 1, bay fi.,y, rising threo years, by Isiwlor's Tasman, o it of a Taieri Tom mare, at £'G3 , No. 2, bay £,'oidin? Duk<?, five years, at £ii IO3; No. 8, bay gelding Tim, five years, at £41 10s; No. 4, chestnut gcldmg Jock, by Naylor's Taaman, three year 3, at £40; No. 6, bay gelding Tpb'y, six years, at £39, No. 6, black mare Black (very small), at £38 10s ; No. 7, brown gelding Nugget, seven years, at £37 10b ; No. 8, chestnut gelding Sam, six years, at £35. Other sales in draughts were: Bay gelding, six years. £50; do, seven years, £48; do, £40; grey gelding, £44 IO3 ; and 7or 8 eged hor&ea, at from £22 <o £33. For Messrs Tonkin and Co. wo sold half a dozen excellent harness horses suitable for spring-cart and tramway work, at from £18 10s to £28 10s. A number of sales of useful hacks and harness horses were also effected at market quotations, and taken all through the sale was a most satisfactory one to the numerous clients who patronised it. We quote 1 Superior young draught geldings, £4.0 to £48; extra good prize horses, £50 to £65 ; medium, draught mares and horses, £32 to £38; nged do, £22 to £30 , upstanding carriage horses, £30 to £35; well-matched carriage pairs, #70. to £90; strong epring-van horses, £28 to £86; millj-cart and butchers' order-cart horses, £18 to £27; tram horses, £14 to £17; light hacks, £8 to £16; extra good hacks, £iy to £25; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, £3 to £7.