The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-24
GO BETWEEN BRINGS $1,000.
ALIEN, SHIELDS BIDS HIM Up IN
THISTLE STAKES.
Broomstlck Wins Mile Handicap With Top
Weight -Alan.a.Dalc. Odds On. BADLY
Beaten- Old Faithful In Front Four
Fa,orites Succeed at Sheepshcad Bay.

Go Between, tho four year-old Meddler
cpldiug who has shown surprising form all
season. was victorious in the Thistle Selling
stake at nine furlongs. run over the Sleeps
head Bay track yesterday. He WAS favorite.
hammered down to = to S, and though he
began slowly. finished with the usual in
vncihle rush through the homestretch, pa ga
Ing tho judges four lengths before 7. C. Nc
Dowsll' 5 Geranium. is to 5.with Alex. Shields's
81 Valentine to /, third. half dozen len gths
back Go Between. who ran in the colors
OF c. F. Fox. the man who bought him last
year from SChnffer h Meyer for 1880. was
entered to he sold for 81 400. When Judge
Mcdowell called for bids Alex. Shields began
the fun by boosting the figures to 5000
first crack out Of the box. Trainer Brown
bid the usual S.. whereupon Sh elds kept on
bidding $500 at a clip until h, had named
5000. AZ that point Fox and Brown decided
TO let the ceding go, and Shields. who told
his friends that he would have gone "a high
a. 5000. seemed we'll satisfied. although
some Of the sharps said that 1t would prove
an expressive bargain. inasmuch rs Go Be-
tween il reputed TO be sore and tho handi-
capper in future events will not be inclined
to treat him lightly. The run-up netted
g,ioo for T. c. Mcdowell. who ran second.
Broomstick. with 1875 pounds. found that
be- was the class in the handicap at a mile.
He vas the choice Of the talent. though he
went back to to because of the play on
+. f. Snathers's Jake Sanders and James r.
Eccne's Sinister Martin rode him with
consimmate skill. waiting until the head OF
tho stretch was reached where Broomstick
moved up on the outside and overhsuling
sinister, the pacemakor. won easily by
length and half in i:42. Sinister was the
same distance before Cederstrome, IL to /.
who beat Jake Sanders head.
Alan-a Dale odds on favorite in the sixth
race. at a mile and sixteenth on the turf.
after showing the way for three-auarters OF
q mile tired under tho weight. JonQuil.
10 t. then became the pacema.er. but near
the end he. too, got leg weary. and Migraine.
second choice. under drive, won by nalf
length in ~. Jonquil was length and
q half before Alan-a-Dae.
Because ne did not think Kinleydale could
win after n poor start in the third race. Tor
two.yeor-clc.s five and half furlongs. Willie
pavis deliberately took the heavily backed
FACET colt up, finishing last. II. P. Whit
ne!s Old Faithful. to /, Won this race by
had from rhidias, the favorte. Hide
brand putting it all over Odom. Cassini,
s?oto shot. was third. The time was 90 20.
for yonSten to s took 1 the fh for
romp; Sac was hvc lengths in from, OF speed
The time wa l.D+-5.
Jockeys TINT had never ridden winner
halfiprlonss : tlritv course. and, wonderful
t. stn ana ~ wHf re MhaFs5 w vT% by
WIZ i1ss"a 'T 40 leg sai Ga ses Place he
tor favcrites va and about 1900 persons
Ser" II etSndaIie The summarizes
'rsT RACE.
Selling Tor tiTrcyccr-o!ds and upward; $500