Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-22
co BETWEEN WINS
CLASSIC SUBURBAN
Beat Hitchcock's DandeIion by
a Nose in a Terrific Driv-
ing Finish.

| NEW YORK. June 22.--After one of the
| most sensational races ever seen upon the
American turf Go Between. five-year-old
gelding. by Meddler-Indigo won the 10000
| Suburban handicap. one mile and a quarter.
| over the SheepShead Bay track yesterday
/ afternoon by six inches. Probably the
| greatest stretch runner In training. Go Be
| tween came from nowhere in the last quar-
| ter of a mile. and. struggling gamely under
| Shaw's whip. he took the rich prize in the
| last jump from Dandelion. four-year-old
colt by Hamburg-Pansy, who was SINH
| larry defeated in the Brooklyn handicap.
Two lengths away was the Meddler mare
| Colonial Girl. while three lengths back came
| Proper. Agile and Dolly Spanker 'heads
| apart named. with the others not far
away and Sydney Pagets Cairngorm. the
most heavily backed horse in the race a
bitter disappointment.
Dandelion and Cairngorm were equal IA
vorites at to 1. while Go Between was
steadily played at SKIES. Colonial Girl. who
was framed I'D for a killing. was backed
down to Is. with ton of money wagered on
David Gideon's Astronomer. When the
horses turned into the stretch. having COM
pleted one mile. eight of %hem-Dandelion.
Celerstrome, Colonial Girl. Go Between,
Agile, Carngorm. Proper and Dolly Spank
and neck. Unable to pick winner at that
point. nearly 10000 spectators were in an
uproar.
As this remarkable vanguard swept in
Jockey Miller wearing the green silk jacket
of +. r. Hitchcock. drew away from the
bunch with a short margin and locked the
winner. but in tffy Go Between. who had
just begun to run. set sail after the Ham
burg colt for heartbreaking struggle all
the way to the wire. Willie Shaw, the vet
eran jockey. put up a strong finish. but he
- III has mo
combination carried the day Cederstrome
made the running for a mile, with Miller
rating Dandelion in the place Some were
| Inclined to criticise Miller for putting Dan
delion under a choking pull, instead of al
lowing him to run free. but a majority Of
turfmen declared after the race that Miller
had done his best under the circumstances.
and that no horse in training could have de-
feated Go Between.
An Evenly Matched Field.
The field lacked class, but the horses
were evenly matched and provided a strug-
gle long to be remembered for It's thrilling
incidents and its spectacular finish. Yet
the race was marred by bad start, in
which Proper. Tokalon and Agile were vir-
tually left at the post, where Astronomer,
by the way, was SO severely kicked by
Proper both in the body and on the legs
| that his chances were greatly impaired
Again, when the field was closely punched
PEELED to take up their mounts to avoid
series of collisions that might have resulted
in fatalities. Because of that bit of jam
ming there were numerous. critics after the
struggle was over who tried to show that
this or that horse could not have lost with
plain sailing. But all honors belong to Go
Between, for he ran true to the form
shown by him the Westminster and Brook
dale handicaps and showed that one of his
best qualities is consistency.
The pace was slow, yet Go Between ran
| the distance in EOS 1-5. The first quarter
was run in 0.24 3-5 the half in 0.49 2-5, the
mile in 1.40 3-5, with Go Between running
a very fast final quarter.
Go Between's Rise as a Racer.
Go Between has an interesting history
| From an ordinary selling platter ne has
| been gradually developed into a remarkable
handicap horse. He was bred by C. f.
McMeekin and sold as a yearIing to Rob-
ert Tucker, the trainer of W. H Browns
| horses. Three years ago Tucker sold him
for $1,000 to Thomas Kerr, an English ath-
| lete, who at one time won the Sheffield handI-
cap and $50 900 Kerr won Go Between
out the first time he started him and then
brought him from the Roby track to Ben
ming. where he was framed up for a kill
! ing, after he had been beaten in his first
| start there. Kerr and his friends bet all
| of their money straight and stood to win
| 100000 if Go Between came home In front.
| But the Meddler gelding was beaten by
Andrew Mack
He ran In a number of selling races on
| the local track after that, until one day
| at Saratoga another coup was framed in
which John w. Gates had an interest. This
| was a selling race, and when Go Between
was defeated half a dozen claims were
| filed for him One of them was by Thomas
Welsh. but as 1t was discovered afterward
/ that he was an unauthorized agent Go Be
| tween was awarded to H. r. Shaffer and
| Fl. H. Meyer, the Brooklyn horsemen, who
promptly sold the son of Medder to G. Il.
| Fox and Frank Brown for 81, 500. Fox and
| Brown a barrel OF money with the
| geiding after that, and he was considered
| the best platter In training always receiv-
| ing the public's support. He was a starter
| in the Thistle stakes at the Bay last June,
| and was entered to be sold for 81 100. lie
| won easily, and Alex Shields. who saw in
! him the qualities of a sterling race horse,
| Knocked down to Shields for $1,000, the
highest price ever paid for a winner of
| selling event.
| Go Between had fair success in the
| Shields colors during the remainder Of last
season. but It not until this year that
| he showed the sterling qualities that en-
| aibled him to win Suburban. He has
won his last five races, and up to yesterday
| he had gathered $14.460 in stakes ana
| purses for his owner. He won the Brook
| dale handicap on Tuesday In heavy going,
| having previously taken the rich West
| minister handicap over a fast track. IN
| which he ran a mile and quarter with 1'Ff
| pounds IN 2.O8 is. He picked up nine
! pounds more In yesterdays race and COW
| cred the distance exactly a second faster.
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