WEST Devon auctioneers this week pronounced the second big Dartmoor pony sale of the year a great success. The open air sale at Chagford last Thursday was blessed with good weather and records tumbled, according to auctioneers Rendells: ?Buyers clearly appreciated the fine and warm conditions, making a quite phenomenal trade for most classes of stock. ?Private buyers were in fairly short supply but the many trade buyers competed very strongly for everything on offer, no ponies failing to meet the minimum bid price and only seven animals selling for that figure.? Rendells said the average sale total was the highest on record and the average price per head topped £50 for the first time ever. It is the first time the Dartmoor pony sale at Chagford has been conducted under the new regime of pony passports. Top price on the day was paid for a spotted filly foal at £273, but there was also ?serious demand? for Dartmoor-type, plain foals, with fillies going to £99.75 and colts to £147.