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GO BETWEENS SUBURBAN. ALEX .SHIELDS MEDDLER GELDING UNDOUBTEDLY BEST OF THE CONTESTANTS. Dandelion, However, Gets a Badly Judged Ride Ballot Defeats Water Pearl and Brookdale Nymph Easily Beats Tradition. New York, June 21. Go Between, always a horse of stake calibre, but masquerading as a selling plater during Ills early career, today won tlie twenty-third renewal of tlie Suburban Handicap at Sheepshead Bay, In the presence of 40,000 spectators. It Is reasonably certain that under any and all conditions the winner was the best horse. That the pace should have been abnormally and ridiculously slow for the first mile so slow, in fact, that three horses, Tokalon, Proper and Agile, which were virtually left at the post, .should have been able to close immense gaps and get Into forward contention when the field straightened out for home indicates that the rating Meddler gelding was really at a disadvantage and that had the race been truly run his victory would have been a hollow one. It was conceded on all sides, however, that Dandelion, the runner-up, was unlucky to have lost. Only to stupidity or slavish obedience to orders on the part of his jockey, can the Hitchcock geldings defeat be attributed. He was literally choked off ia a silly endeavor to wait on a pacemaker of such palpably inferior class as Cederstrome, which was himself , under restraint for nearly a mile. Go Between was bred by C. F. MeMeekin, being by Meddler out of Indigo. As a two-year-old he changed hands at the Roby racetrack, Thomas Kerr buying him for ,000. At the following Washington spring meeting his. owner, backed his recent . .purchase to win a ..fabulous? sum. .said to.be over 06,600: He -lost by"lnches;IHicirpnrsfuetsthe combination to the .end.. JVt Saratoga he was again the unsuccessful medium of a colossal plunge by John" A. Drake and E. E. Smathers, whose wagers then" were practically limitless. Mr. Kerr lost him through the claiming route. Ostensibly owned by C. P. Fox, but in reality belonging to Senator I. H. McCarren, Go Between Was started In another selling race shortly afterwards and passed into the hands of his present owner, Alex Shields, on a bid of ,000. proving a veritable gold mine. The shrewd Canadian horseman won 0,000 in wagers. Shaw was promised and received a fee of ,000 for winning. The total of bets won on Ids last four victories is said to have leen 00,000. Aside from the Suburban the racing was of superior class. The sensation of the afternoon was the unexpected defeat of the great Water Pearl in the Double Event. The Keene colt Ballot took the measure of the recently-outclassing two-year-old champion with astounding ease. None of the horsemen or critics were inclined to acept todays showing as the true form of Water Pearl, alleging that the westerner, Ethon, finished too close to him at the end. It Is quite certain that the Watercress youngster did not for some reason or other run his "race today. Harry Payne Whitney, uncovered a magnificent three-year-old filly today in Brookdale Nymph, which only cantered to beat Tradition and shatter a track record. Radtke made his reappearance In the saddle after a suspension of ten days and In the second and third races rode the winners, W. Miller finishing second In both Instances.
