January 27th – Sheffield Telegraph
Sale by Mr Harrop.
Important Sale of valuable Colliery Horses
To be sold by auction, by Mr T Harrop, on the premises of the Denaby Main Colliery on Thursday, the eighth day of February, the following very valuable Pit horses and ponies which the company have no further use for on account of the depression of trade:
Lot 1 – Bay horse, “drummer” 15 hands
Lot 2 – Black horse, “Barker” 14 1/2 hands, 7 years
Lot 3 – grey horse, “Bob” 14 1/2 hands, 7 years
Lot 4 – Brown horse, “Jack” 14 ½ hands, 6 years
Lot 5 – Brown horse, “Charley” 14 ½ hands, 8 years
Lot 6 – black horse, “Dick”, 14 hands, 8 years
Lot 7 – black pony, “Saul” 13 hands, 8 years
Lot 8 – Chestnut pony “Jerry” 13 hands 6 years
Lot 9 – Bay pony, “Don” 12 hands
Lot 10 – Chestnut pony, “Tichborne” 12 hands
Lot 11 – Pyebald Pony, “Billy” 12 hands
Lot 12 – Grey pony, “Snowball” 12 hands
Lot 13 – Grey pony, “Tiger” 12 hands
Lot 14 – Chestnut pony, “silvery” 12 hands
The auctioneer, can with confidence recommend the above to be a lot of good and genuine
Working Horses, and will be having work
up to date of sale. Any particulars respecting the same can be had on application to
Mr Allen Ogden, at the colliery, or of the auctioneer, of whom catalogues may be had.
Sale, to commence at two o’clock.
P.S.the ponies will not be drawn out of the Colliery until time of sale
Mexborough, January 26, 1877.