LIVE STOCK.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 39, 24 September 1903, Page 13

LIVE STOCK.

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS. Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report as follows :—: — Nine draughts and 17 hacks and harness horses constituted the supply for this week's sale. For the draughts there was a very keen demand, and all of them changed hands as follows : Powerful bay gelding, seven years (shafter), £62 ; do, six years, £60 ; active tipcart gelding, four years, £59 ; nuggety cart gelding, eight years, £56 ; very powerful lorry horse, aged, £515 ; aged draught mare, £36 ; aged draught gelding, £30 ; light draught gelding, aged, £29 ; very small aged mare, £25. The light horses offered were a very poor lot, and about one dozen of them changed hands at from £7 10s to £12. We quote : Superior young draught gelno;s, £55 to s£6fl ■ extra good, prize horses, £65 to £80 ; medium draught mares and geldings, £40 to £54 ; aged do, 28 to £38 ; upstanding carriage horses, £30 to £35 ; welUmatched carriage pavrs, £80 to £100 ; strong springrvan norses, £35 to £40 ; milk-cart and butchers' order-cart horses, £22 to £34 ; tram horses, £16 to £28 ; light hacks, £12 to £18 ; extra good hacks, £20 to £30 ; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, £5 to £10.