DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 42, 15 October 1903, Page 13

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report as follows :—: — There was a fair number of horses torward for this week's sale, including consignments of both draught and harness horses from the country. The demand was brisk for both classes, and nearly every horse in the yards found a new owner at prices fully up to recent quotations. In draughts the following sales were effected — vu , bay gelding, five years, at £59 ; bay gelding, seven years, at £56 ; and six aged but fresh horses at £51, £49, £46, £44, £37, and £33 respectively. Strong harness horses sold uncommonly well, 14 changing hands at from £17 to £31 10s. A number of aged hacks and harness horses were also sold at prices ranging from £7 to £13. We quote : Superior young draught geldings, £54 to £65 ; extra good, prize horses, £6)5 to £80 j medium draught mares and geldings, £40 to £50 ; aged do, £25 to £38 ; upstanding carriage horses, £30 to £40 ; well-matched carnage pairs, £80 to £100 ; strong spring-van horses, £30 to £38 ; milk-cart and butchers' order-cart horses, £20 to £28 ; tram horses, £16 to £,30 ; light hacks, £10 to £18 ; extra good hacks, £20 to £30 ; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, £4 to £8.