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GO BETWEEN FOR SUBURBAN SHIELDS CANDIDATE QUALIFIES MOST SATISFACTORILY IN THE BROOKDALE. Will Probably Be Equal Favorite With Dandelion Lewisohn Refuses 5,000 for Yankee Gun Bis Winnings at Gravesend. New York, June 19. f!o Between, Alex Shields superlative mudlark and good all around racehorse, qualified handsomely for the Suburban, Thursdays biff race at Sheepshead Bay, by winning with ridiculous ease the mile and an eighth Brookdale Handicap, at fJravesend this afternoon. He defeated four hitherto seriously considered Suburban factors in Proper, Inquisitor, Oxford and Coy Maid. The wonderfully Improved Meddler geldlugs victory in todays stake was impressive from the fact that he was virtually left at the post and afterwards overcame all the interference that was coming to him and finally made good with such an astounding sprint that his jockey was able to pull him up to a slow canter at the finish. It is pretty certain that Go Between will go to the post first favorite for he greatest race of the year or at least share that honor with the lightly-weighted Dandelion. Go Between incurred no penalty for winning todays feature. Gloomy weather, muddy track conditions and improved racing obtained at Gravesend. Six favorites, were successful. A coming celebrity in Yankee Gun led the procession of good things by scoring In the opening handicap for two-year-olds. Immediately after the race. John B. Madden, former owner and breeder of this grand looking half-brother to Gunfire, made an effort to buy him back from his present owner, Oscar Lewisohn, who turned down an offer of 5,000 for the youngster. Big coups were successfuly engineered on Loring in the third and General Haley in the last. John A. Drake and his coterie are said to have won 0,-000. on the Chlnn three-year-old. Jockey Martins efforts on W. H. Browns colt, on whose chances his plunging trainer. It. Tucker, is credited with investing nearly 0,000. were extraordinary. This was a day of big individual winnings. Jessie Lewisohn is credited with 0,000; William Shields, 0,000.. and It. -Tucker, with 5,000. One of the surprising and Inexplicable conditions was the lack of stable support for the suddenly rejuvenated Gideon colt. Astronomer. W. II. Cheppu has just returned from France. He says that there is no longer any chances of pulling- off any old-time coups In that country since bookmaking has been abolished. The rautuals quickly expose stable support. Ort Wells has been declared out of all Coney Island Jockey Club engagements. Yorkshire Lad was bid up from ,200 to ,000 by an unknown man. The stable retained him with an advance of . The first eastern sale of Burns and Waterhouse California-bred yearlings takes place at Sheepshead Bay. July 10. the- consignment consists of seventeen colts and five fillies by Altamax, Eddie Jones and First Tenor. They will leave the coast June 25.
