The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-22

Takes the Measure d the Hoas'ed
water Pearl In The Double Event
Nearly 10000 Persons see he
sport nj the shecpshead hay Track.
After one of the most sensational races
ever seen upon the Aneri can turf, Go
Bet ween, a ~five-year-old gelding by Med
dler indigo. won the sD,O00 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 Between
came from nowhere In the last quarter OF Q
mile, and struggling 'gamely under Shaw's
whip, he took the rich prize in the last
jump from Dandelion, a four-year-old colt
by Hamburg-Pansy, who was similarly
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 as
named. with the others not far away
and Sydney Paget's Cairngorm, the o
heavily backed horse In the race, q bitter
disappointment.
Dandefon and Cairngorm were equal
favorites at . to 1, while Go Between was
steadily played at slxes. Colonial Girl
who was framed up for a killing, was backed
down to is, with a ton Of money wageted
on David Gideon's Astronomer. When the
horses turned into tho stretch, having COM
pleted one mile, eight Of hen-Dandelion,
Cederstrome, Colonial Girl, Go Between.
Agile, Cairngorm. Proper and Dolly spanker
were racing like a troop Of cavalry neck
and neck. Unable to pick a winner at that
point nearly 10000 spectators were in an
uproar.
As this remarkable vanguard swept on
Jockey Miller, wearing the green silk jacket
Of +. r. Hitchcock, drew way from the
bunch with a short margin and looked the
winner, but in a jify Go Between, who had
just begun to run, set sail after the Hamburg
colt for a heartbreaking struggle all the
way to the wire. Willie Shaw, the veteran
jockey, put up the stronger finish. but he
had u game horse under him, so that the
combination carried the day. Cederstrome
made the running fuf a mile, with Miller
rating Dandelion in the place. Some were
inclined to criticize Miller TO- putting Dsnde-
lion under a choking pull, instead OF allow
ing him to run free, but a majority Of turf
men declared after the race hat Miller
had done his best under the circumstances,
and that no horse. in training could iavo
defeated 10 Retwern.
AN EvENLY MATCHED Flr:.p.
The field lacked class. bnt the horsss
were evenly matcted and provided n strug
gle long to I've remembered for its thrilling
Incidents and its spectacular finish. Yet
the race was married by bad start in which
Proper. Tokalon and Agile We're virtually
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 on the
far turn several jockeys were compelled TO
Ia lie up their mounts 10 avoid a series OF
collisions that might ha We resulted In fata H.
ties. Because of that bit Of tanning 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 Re-
tween, for he ran true to the form shown
by him in the Westminster and Brookdale
handicaps and showed that one of his best
qua lities 10 consistency.
The pace was slow, yet Go Between ran
the distance in 2O6 is. The first quarter
was run In o:24 SIS. the half In 0:4e2 -5, the mils
In 1:4O s-5, with Go Between running q very
fast final quarter.
GO BRrwEEN's RISE AS A RACER.
Go Between has an interesting history.
From an ordinary selling platter he has been
gradually developed into q remarkable
handicap horse. He was bred by @. r.
McMeekin and sold as a yearling to Robert
Tucker, the trainer Of w. II. Browne horses.
Three years ago Tucker sold him for 81, 900
to Thomas Kerr, an English athlete, who
at one time won the Sheffield handicap and
$50, 600. Kerr won Go Between out the first
time be started him, and then brought him
from the Roby track to Bennings, where he
was framed up for a killing, after he had
been beaten In his first start there. Kerr
and his friends bet all Of their money straight
and stood to win 500 900 II Go Between
came home In front. But the Meddler
gelding was beaten by Andrew Mack. He
ran in 4 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 al interest. This was O ceiling
race and when Go Between was defeated
half a dozen claims were fled for him.
One Of them was by Thomas Welsh but as
a. Was discovered aftarvard that Ia -.