LIVE STOCK DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIV, Issue 17, 26 April 1906, Page 13

LIVE STOCK DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co., report as follows :—: — We had a moderate entry for Saturday's sale, made up almoßt exclusively of spring-cart and light harness horses There was a good attendance of buyers for good young draughts, spring-oart, and order-cart horses, but unfortunately what draughts were in. the yard were old and only of medium quality. There were one or two good good young sorts however in the spring-cart and light harness seotion*, and these sold readily at up to £26 10s, which price waa obtained for a four-year-old mare, euitable for batcher's delivery cart. We quote : Superior young draught geldings at froai £50 to £55 ; extra good do (prize horses), £56 to £65 ; superior young draught mares, £60 to £73 ; medium draught mares and geldings, £30 to £45 ; aged do, £17 to £30 ; upstanding carriage horses, £25 to £35 ; well-matched carriage pairs, £80 to £100 ; strong springvan horses, £23 to £35 ; milk-cart and butchers' order-cart horses, £20 to £28 ; light hacks, £10 to £18 ; extra good hacks. £20 to £30 ; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, £5 to £8.