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IMPORTED HORSES REACH NEW YORK. A. K. Macombers North Star, Winner of the Middle Park Plate, Among the Band. New York, Docenilor 11. The Atlantic Transport Lines steamer Lancastrian, which arrived here Saturday at 2:30 p. in., brought three valuable colts for A. K. Macomlier and five weanlings for August Belmont. In the consignment was North Star, the splendid son of Sunstar and Angelic, winner of the Barton Mill Nursery Handicap and the Middle Park Plate, the last mentioned being one of the most important of the English races for two-year-olds, although he was beaten in the Dewhurst .another two-year-old event of importance, later in the season. It is rejiorted that this colt cost Mr. Macomber 0,000. On the same ship Mr. Macomber had the three-year-old bay colt Kings Joker, by Sunder out of Absurdity, u colt which had shown good class abroad, and the two-year-old brown colt War Star, by Sun-star out of Verne. North Star appears bound to win many admirers in this country, not alone upon his splendid achievements as a two-year-old and his royal breeding, but because he is one of the most attractive colts which has been shown in this country. He is a rich golden chestnut, marked with a small star and a little white on each hind foot. It would be safe to say that he stands about fifteen hands three inches high, and he is well furnished everywhere. He has a clean, muscular neck, rangy shoulders and long, strong and perfectly rounded barrel, grand loin and quarters of great reach and range, with thick stifles, well let down, good gaskins and muscular arms, while his knees and hocks are close to the ground. He is without doubt a colt which will maintain his already well-proved high turn of speed over a long distance under stake weights. He is as cool-headed and gentie as the best-trained campaigner, and seems to have the temper and manners of a high-ciass race horse. Kings Joker, although bred on somewhat the same lines as North Star, is in many respects essentially unlike him. This three-year-old is an immense colt, standing nearly seventeen hands high. He is high at the withers, showing great depth through the heart and a long, stout barrel, well coupled to rangy and massive quarters by a broad and well-muscled loin, and has good shoulders, although they are less oblique than those of his stable-mate, while his rump is rather more inclined to "droop." He is a big-boned fellow and well balanced, but he is verywhere a trifle coarser than North Star. He looks like a colt which could carry heavy weights and go a long distance under them. War Star is a handsome and highly-finished brown colt, marked with a star and three white feet, both fore and his off hind foot being white. Those who remember Mr. Macombers good colt, Star Hawk, will be forcibly reminded of him in looking over War Star. Star Hawk is a deep bay, while War Star is a dark brown, but while Star Ilawk conveyed the idea of a rather light-waisted colt, War Star is a big colt in every way, but he .stems to possess all of the delicate high finish for Which the winner of the Realization, was noteworthy He has the same bloodlike and beautifully finished head and the peculiarly fine finish of his :neck is essentially reminiscent of Star Hawk, dropping a trifle just in front of the withers, which are ihigh and fine, and then rising into an exquisitely laiiity crest which, without the faintest suspicion of grossness, is still distinctively masculine. Like Star Hawk, his withers, while bloodlike and line, are relatively rather high, with a long backward slope which almost meets the . curve of u powerful loin. He has a long, cylindrical barrel, rangy, strong and beautifully outlined quarters, thick stifles well let down, and strong, clean hocks jand knees, which are close to the ground. In short ihe would suggest an enlarged edition of Star Hawk. On the same ship were five weanlings consigned to August Belmont. Of these three are colts and two fillies. They appear to have shipped well and "Wok to be a promising band of race horses, but tiae of them; a slashing bis chestnut colt, appears to stand out prominently over his youthful stable-mates both in size and quality. It is probable that the Macomber trio will be shipped to Walter Jennings at Charleston, S. C, while the Belmont weanlings will be sent down to tiie Nursery Stud in Kentucky.
