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NORTH STAR THIRD IN DEWHURST PLATE. While 3Ir. Macombers recent purchase North Star won the 3Iiddle Park Plate in gallant fashion, he had to be content with third place in the Dew-hurst Plate at the recent Newmarket Houghton meeting. But he was not disgraced, carrying 131 pounds to 121 on the winner Telephus and 125 or. the Athdara, which finished second, of the race and its contestants W. Allison said in London Sportsman of the next day: The great event of the day, the Dewhurst Plate, came off to a certain extent as I anticipated when Athdara fairly and squarely ran North Star out of it, but the unexpected happened when Telephus just got up and beat the Beckbampton colt a short head on the post. Of course. North Star was conceding six pounds to the second, which beat him three lengths, so that they arc probably about the same animal at. even weights, and this just tallies witii the form of each measured through 3Iolly Desmond. Telephus is a fine, bloodlike half- j brother to Aleppo, and traces, therefore, to Blink Bonny. He lias a rare forehand, with depth of girth and well-laid shoulders, but his hocks are , faulty, though they will probably serve him as well as if they had been of more orthdox formation, j He ran his race out gamely, and he gives his sire, Spearmint, a nice lift among winning stallions, j North Star looked even better todoy than he did when stripped for the Middle Park Plate, and Athdara has made marked improvement since lie was last seen out. He was greatly fancied by the stable, and really it was a certainty, on the book, that he would beat North Stur at the weights. The Vcrdercr has also come on, but he is not quite in the first class, and never figured prominently in the race. Gadshill, however, which, like The Verderer, is a grandson of Glare, ran well indeed for a long way and finished fourth. Dresden was last, and he may never have really recovered from the mysterious seizure which prevented his running on the July side. Otherwise, his Newbury defeat of Knutsford is quite inexplicable. Todays race leaves the two-year-old form all in a heap, and it will be a puzzle indeed to discriminate among such a lot of more or less equal colts and fillies when the three-year-old races of next season come on for consideration. In summing up the Dewhurst Plate form one has to remember that North Star did not get well away, but he did not lose nearly so much ground as was alleged. Indeed, Bulock puts it at no more than about a half length. It might have been all the better for Athdara to be in a similar case, for there is some of the Desmond old Adam in him, and he wants a good deal of humoring before being asked to go to the front, 3Ioreover, though he stays well, he has not a second run in him if the first does not quite avail to get him home, and thus, when he had put paid to North Star today, lie cither could not or would not resist the challenge of Telephus. However, Athdara is in good hands, and it would not suprise me at all if he was to prove the best of all the three-year-old colts next season, for he has grown and developed splendily since he won at Lingfield in the spring.
