LEESTON HORSE FAIR.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 47, 1 April 1914, Page 11

LEESTON HORSE FAIR.

A; . Successful sale. The annual sale of horses at Leeston was held yesterday, when some excellent draughts came forward, and were met with a fair demand. Among the sales made were the following: — Broken draughts—For -Mr T. Carter (Southbridge), three-year-old gelding, £43; three-year-old gelding, £4l; MiIvan M 'Gill (Lakeside), six-year-old gelding, £4O, five-year-old gelding, £46; Mr J. Boag, jun. (Brookside), "three-year-old gelding, £2O; Mr' R. Fincham (Ellesmere), three-year-old geldings £25 and £3O, four-year-old gelding £3O; Mr Alex. M'Laughlin (Taumutu), 'four-year-old gelding, £4O; Mr W. J. Lemon (Killinchy), fouryear mare, £35; Mr D. Hampton (Leeston), four-year-old geldings, £4O and £2O, two-year-old geldings, £37, £3l, £3l, three-year geldings, £37; Mr Archibald M'Lachlan (Doyleston), fbnr-year-old mare £4O 10/-; Mr Jas. Quigley (Doyleston), three-year gelding, £3l; Mr W. M'Lachlan (Doyleston), five-year* mare, £25; Mr H. M. Hay (Leeston), three-year filly, £2B, sevenyear gelding, £36; Mr W. Gabbie (Southbridge), six-year gelding, £3l, aged gelding, £26 10/-; Mr L. T. Hartnell (Leeston), four-year gelding, £42 10/-; Mr J. Newlove (Dunsandel), mare seven years, £34 10/-, gelding six years, £29, gelding, seven years, £29, gelding, eight years £26 10/-, gelding five years £sl, gelding teti years, £2O; Mr S. Breading (Rakaia), mare five years, •£27 10/-;. Mr S. Gibson (Ellesmere), five-year gelding, £35 10/-, five-year mare, £3l; Mr W. Lochhead (Southbridge), four-year half-draught gelding £l6. Broken liagks all prices from £1 for broken-downs to £l2 for the better sorts.

Unbroken draughts—Mr T. B. liowson (Sedginere), three-year filly, £29 10/-; Mr J. Gorman (Southbridge), two-year fillies, £24 and £l7 10/-; Mr W. H. Jackman (Leeston), filly foal £2O 10/-; Mr James Clark (Doyleston), two-year filly, £2O 10/-, filly foal, £l3 10/-; other geldings, £lB to £23 > yearling colt, £ls, yearling gelding, £l4 10/-, light and half-draught unbroken sorts, £9 to £ls.