Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-03-23
HORSE DAY.
NEXT MONDAYS HORSE SHOW
AND MARKET

NEXT MONDAYS HORSE SHOW
AND MARKET.
Next Monday, March. court, is the horse
day Of the year. There will appear at the
stables in Staunton display of horse
flesh not unlike that on the District Fair
Grounds last October. The thorough
bred stations will be here in force
Byers' Clydesdales Percherons from the
stables of Freed, Hartman. Smiley and
Click; thoroughbred Hameltonian monk"
of Senator Koiner "Red Buek,'' and the
well known saddler, "McClung's Tele-
graph ~ Snyder & Bros. fine horse. 'Pat-
rick Henry - Mcclure & Donaid's beau
tiful ECLIPSE. - and Trlmble 81 Gilkeson's
"Sultan." Besides these there Will be in
Staunton some late importations who ap-
pear here for the first time--"KenJucky
Denmark" owned by Messrs. Geo. Mas
lin and NJ. +. Gilkeson, and the riding
and driving horse brought from Kentucky
last week by Wilson Il Trimbie. And
last, certainly not least, the French
coacher, owned by Sterrett Il Thompson.
of Rockbrldge county, the horse that Ned
Burke says is tue handsomest horse he
ever saw. They will all be here, and psr
haps others just as good that we do not
now think of. Evidently if our farmers
do noG raise some extra good colts next
year it will not be because they cannot
get the very best of horses to breed from.
This Importation of fue horses into the
Valley, and SO many of them, is most
encouraging sgn of the times. The sur
prising thing to Us is that some of our
welI-to-do farmers do not keep thorough
ored mares and compete with Kentucky
in the sale of colts. Why not
THE HORSE MARKET.
1t Is expected that there will be many
buyers here Monday fol- good horses. One
party, from Baltimore, will take all
horses, not less than years old and weigh
ing $50 pounds. he can get affair prices.
1t Is hoped that our friends will sell all
they want to sell and get fair prices, but
1T will be mistake to think that there is
d scarcity Of horses and that our section
las monopoly and therefore the buyers
who come here are compelled to buy.
They want good horses and will doubtless
gay fair prices. and that is the size of it.
At HarrisonbuTg, last Monday there were
many more borses than usual, even for
hors9 market in this State. Most of those
lffered were sold. The prices paid aver
aged somewhat better than heretofore
SOME HINTS TO STOCK OWNERS FROM AN
OLD HORSE DEALER.
An experienced horse dealer gives US
some points that will be valuable to those
of our countymen who have horses to sell.
He says the great mistake that horse own
srs make is their not spending a little
trouble in fixing up their stock for sale.
They will bring good horse to Stanton
TO sell, led by rope halter; his coat ur-
curried and rough; with may ba one shoe
off and three on, or sometimes three off
and one on; with the hoofs untrimmed
and spread out over space enough for two
hoofs. OF course, whatever his good qua
titles are, this is not an attractive horse.
and buyer will be attracted to better
style animals and buy all he wants before
he will eyer cast look at this sorry GU tiff.
o If dealer says the proper way to sell
h )rse is to prepare him for s lie. See thu
he has flesh on his bones; that he is cur
ri6d till his hair gitters; that his name
and tail are combed, and his fetlocks trim
med; that his hoofs are pared neatly, and
all four shoes on. All this costs only
few ou's trouble and few dimes to
the neiz hborho ID blacksmith, bus it IS
paid pacs to tn osne four-fold in the in
creased pr ce he .ets for his norse. Many
really 90 amin is, our informant says,
are led back Q r IA the horse % AT ket,
because their appearance fois to attract
tbs uyers. VIII, b We plenty OF other
no sas to pic from.
A4ain, cur Informant says, farmer
ought 20 know before he brings the horse
off The farm what he expects to get for
nlm. The buyers who are in the business
know we'll enough what they expect TO
give. Their business tor the most part
lies in horses running from $50 to $125.
Their selling profit lies in buying the balk
If What they buy somewhere near these
igures-f5ures at which They are pretty
sure Of getting them off their hands quick
~ when they 60 hom8-5om 3Jhiug very
Important for these buyers, for while they
are cash men they are not rich men. aud
must manage to turn their capital over
quickly. They often pay up to $l75 and
5000, but it is for horses that they already
lave orders for, or have sure market for,
and not for horses that they have to
''work off, as the trade phrase goes.
The buyers who come to the Valley ex-
poet to find heavy horses on sale if they
want them, and expect to pay for them.
So that a neatly prepared, good looking,
neavy horse is about the best stock tar
mer can bring in with the most certainty
Of disposing of him.