our understanding of quantum chromodynamics in the non-perturbative regime [@Rosner:1985dx; @Eichten:1993ub; @Swanson:2006st]. In recent years three new excited charm-strange mesons have been observed for the first time which can test calculations and help improve our understanding of hadron spectroscopy. They are the $D_{s1}^*(2700)^\pm$ [@Aubert:2006mh; @Brodzicka:2007aa; @Aubert:2009ah; @Aaij:2012pc], $D_{sJ}^*(2860)^\pm$ [@Aubert:2006mh; @Aubert:2009ah; @Aaij:2012pc], and $D_{sJ}^*(3040)^+$ [@Aubert:2009ah]. We will focus on the first two states which have been observed by multiple experiments. The Particle Data Group averages for the masses, decay widths and ratios of branching fractions for the $D_{s1}^*(2700)^\pm$ and $D_{sJ}^*(2860)^\pm$ are [@Beringer:1900zz]: $$M(D^*_{s1}(2710)^\pm ) = 2709\pm 4 \; \hbox{MeV}$$ $$\Gamma(D^*_{s1}(2710)^\pm ) = 117 \pm 13 \; \hbox{MeV}$$ $${{\Gamma (D^*_{s1} \to D^* K)} \over {\Gamma (D^*_{s1} \to D K)}} 
= 0.91 \pm 0.13 (\hbox{stat}) \pm 0.12 (\hbox{syst})$$ and $$M(D^*_{sJ}(2860)^\pm ) = 2863^{+4.0}_{-2.6} \; \hbox{MeV}$$ $$\Gamma(D^*_{sJ}(2860)^\pm ) = 58 \pm 11 \; \hbox{MeV}$$ $${{\Gamma (D^*_{sJ} \to D^* K)} \over {\Gamma (D^*_{sJ} \to D K)}} 
= 1.10\pm 0.15 (\hbox{stat}) \pm 0.19 (\hbox{syst})$$ Both states are observed decaying into both $DK$ and $D^*K$ so have natural parity $J^P= 1^-$, $2^+$, $3^-, \ldots$. In this paper we compare the observed properties of these states to the mass predictions of the relativized quark model and decay predictions 