The New York herald., 1921-06-05
Stable Talk and Trade
In Market for Horses
American Trottefs at Auction
in London.

1eOTBS w dtSOn received t0,5So at auC-
tion for his last shipment of American
trotters to England. This is equivalent
to about s21. 500, or an average of S716
for the thirty head sold, but the New
York horseman, instead of converting
his pounds into dollars at present rates
of exchange, Is buying English horses,
saddles and other commodities. which he
will ship back to the United States and
sell here for American money Peter
Duffy. 2 :10M. made the top price in his
recent sale in London, bringing $1.620.
Britton Forbes, 2:061a a prize winner
at the National Horse Show few years
ago. brought s1.sOo.
Fiss, Doerr & Carroll shipped twelve
fire horses to Mexico last week to fill an
order from the Mexican Federal Gov
ernment. They were about as nice a lot
Of coal black steeds-all fire horses
must be black In Mexico--as have left
the Twenty-fourth street mart I'm many
a long day. They were uniform in size,
standing 1873 hands high and Weighing
right around 1850 pounds. and they
looked like well bred heavyweight trot-
ting horses. They went through by rail
to the border. where they are to be de-
livered for transportation to the City Of
Mexico.
Scarcely q horse Weighing more than
1,500 pounds-and few of that weight
went through the Monday and Thursday
auctions at Fiss. Doerr & Carrolls last
week. The bulk of the offerings Of
Western shippers tipped the beam at
1,400 or less and the active, well built
and well bred looking ones Weighing
from 1880 to 1900 had the call. as they
have had all through the spring season.
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Ill, and Sweet q Piper, OF Kansas City,
had some choice ones Of this kind on
the market and they were sold out with
out exhausting the demand.
Five carloads or fresh Western
horses, representing four different ship
pers, have arrived In Twenty-fourth
street for to-morrow's auction at F'iss
Doerr & Carrolls. The number Is un-
exampled for a June sale. Mr.. Ffss
says. Seasoned workers from local con-
signers usually make up the list of
offerings at this time In the year, but
second handlers of the right sizes and
In good condition are not coming In
in sufficient numbers this season. hence
tho big demand for green ones.
The Bergen Horse Company's weekly
auctions keep up well over in Jersey
City. the first sale this month having
been more suggestive Of April than
June. Light drafters and seasoned
horses that are fresh on their legs and
fairly good flesh bring the best prices,
L. G. Burdick, the auctioneer. says.
Henry Schafer, auctioneer at the old
established Raymond street mart, In
Brooklyn. held n successful special sale
on Tuesday to close out tho funeral
stock OF Angelina Russo, in Carroll
street
A. NJ. Stein & Co.. OF Washington
street. Brooklyn. are showing stable
full of middleweight drafters and wagon
horses for private sale. They report a
very fair trade.
The we'll trained school horses from
purands Riding Academy are going to
the country every week, now that the
outing season is here. In the twenty
odd years of its existence the Sixty
sixth street school never had so many
good riding horses as at present
NJ. y. Newcomb's oosey sale stable at
Seventh avenue and Central Park is a
busy place these days. Mr.. Newcomb
keeps tho largest stock of well trained
saddle horses in the city for private
sale, and he Is selling them.
VI. Kaufman a Sons are drawing lot
of uptown trade in saddles. harness and
all riding and driving equipment at
their new building In Division street. two
blocks south OF the Williamsburg
bridge.
Godfrey Preece. OF wcs.bury. l.. l.,
has purchased the d-year-old thorough-
bred Waldo Jr., racing winner at Erie
Pa. to make into a point-to-point horse
for amateur hunt nestings nsxt tall