DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS. Weekly Report.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIII, Issue 47, 20 March 1896, Page 13

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS. Weekly Report.

Mess?B Wright, Stephenson, and Co. repiit as follows: — There was a good attendance of the public at Siturday's sale, and what is even more satisfactory to chronicle is the fact that the proportion of buyers was greater tb»n usual The demand for strong, upstanding light harness horses, suitable for trannravs or for batchers', bakers', grocers', and milkmen's delivery carts, is better just now than we have seen it during the past two years, and we would strongly recommend clients with ttiis class of horse fcr sale to place them on the market whilst the demund continups. There is also a good demand for young draughts, and wpll-bred " cobby " mares are wanted by an outside boyer es the necleus of a stud farm. We quote : — Heavy drangbts, four to six years, L 22 to L 27 ; do, eight to tea years, Lls to L2O ; light and small do, L 8 to Ll2 ; acjed and inferior do, L 4 to L 7 ; upstanding spring-ci't horseß, young and sound, Ll2 to Ll6 ; well-bred upstanding hacks and harness horses, Ll6 to L'2o ; upstanding hacks and harness horses, LlO to Ll4 ; aged and inferior L 2 to L 5.