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WAS LOATH TO PART WITH NORTH STAR. New York, November 18. While talking about the high prices demanded for really good thoroughbreds in England just now, Thomas Welsh, who has just arrived from abroad, remarked that owners are slow to part with them, much as they were before the war. "Take, for example," lie said, "Mr. Joels good two-year-old, North Star, by Sunstar. After he won the Barton Mills Nursery Handicap, I went to Mr. Joel and asked him if he would consider an offer of 5,000 for his colt. He replied that he would not, and that he would not consider an offer of five times that for him. Since then he won the Middle Park Plate and that would add to his owners valuation of him." It has recently been reported that A. IC. Macomber has acquired North Star from Mr. Joel.
