Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-11
STURDY GO between
Is THROUGH RACING

The purchase of Go Between at Los
Angeles a few days ago by Phil CHM
means that the turf career of that famous
son of Meddler and indigo, who won the
suburban handicap of 1906. is ended. II
is the intention of Mr.. Chinn to ship &C
Between to his his stud near Harrodsburs
and breed good mares to him.
That Mr.. Chinn is not afraid Go Be-
tween will not procreate, notwithstanding
the dispute a couple Of seasons back al
to whether he was stallion or gelding, is
clear. Mr.. Chinn gave 5000 for the little
bay. He probably has q valuable stall.
lion.
Go Between was never a great horse
but he was always game and consistent
and he was the innocent cause OF the
most sensational row of recent turf his
tory. Go Between was originally owned
by the late Capt. Samuel 8. Brown OF
Pittsburg. He was trained as q twO-year-
old In the west by Robert Tucker and
raced as geldtng.
The horse was never gelded, but Tucker
could not determine whether he was stall
lion or gelding. His first notable races In
the east were run under the silks of Chas.
Fox and Frank. Brown, the Texan who
handled Montgomery last season, was his
Brown he won many selling races. and
he went to Washington in the autumn OF
1904 and took the Benning special and
the Washington cup.
Go Between was not nominated the fol-
lowing spring for the great mile and a
quarter handicaps of 1905. Brown pre-
ferred to keep him for selling races, and
in selling race, the Thistle. run at
Sheepshead Bay in June. Brown lost the
gallant little bay. Alex Shields had
backed Go Between the time before. he
started in the Thistle. and did not like
the race the horse ran.
When Shields Took Go Between.
Accordingly, after the finish of the
Thistle which Go Between won, Shields
went out on the track and ran his price
up to $1,000. at which figure Brown and
Fox let the horse go. Mr.. Shields did not
have a great deal Of luck with Go Be-
tween in 1905. The little horse seemed
to have lost his form with the running OF
the Thistle.
But from the beginning of 1906 he was
a remarkable horse. After meeting defeat
in the Brooklyn handicap. through Jack
Martins misunderstanding his orders as
to how to ride, Go Between won the West
minister in handsome style and then he
took the Brookdale. His most celebrated
victory, however. was scored In the Sub
urban. in which his principal opponen,
was Francis r. Hitchcock's Dandelion
Dandelion ran second.
A short time after the Suburban Mr.
Hitchcock sought to prevent the Coney
Island Jockey Club from paying the Sub.
urban purse to Mr.. Shields on the propo.
sition that Go Between had been entered
as a gelding when he was really a stall.
lion.
An official examination having estab.
lished his status. the Coney Island jockey
Club turned down Mr.. Hitchcock's claim
and the matter was taken to the stewards
of the Jockey Club. Mr.. Shields was no,
as fortunate in that tribunal as he ha6
| been with the officers Of the Sheepsheal
bay organization.
In spite of his defense that he hat
bought Go Between as gelding out Of
| a selling race in which the Coney Islant
Jockey Club, through its auctioneer, hat
SO described him. and that. whether stal
lion or gelding. he had done his racing
in handicaps in which the weights wer.
fixed arbitrarily by one person withou
| reference to the sex of the competinf
horses, the Jockey Club decided stha