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GO BETWEENS TRAINER LOSES HIS LICENSE. All Horses Belonging to Alexander Shields Are Disqualified for Thirty Racing Days. The Jockey Club stewards Thursday night, after Dully Racing Form had gone lo press, took drastic action in the matter of the horse Go Between, which won the Suburban Handicap when entered as a gelding and was subsequently protested on the ground that he was a stallion. The trainers license or John Shields, who handled Go Between, was revoked and all horses of Alexander Shields, owner of Go Between, Ormondes Bight. Halifax and other good performers, were disqualified for thirty racing days. The action will deprive the Shields stable from competing in the rich stakes offered at Brighton Beach, including the 5,000 Brighton Handicap next Saturday. In addition Shields will be disqualified from the Saratoga Handicap the opening day of the Saratoga meeting and all other stakes during the first ten days at the Spa. New York dispatches say public sympathy is with the Messrs. Shields, particularly with John, the tiaiuer. Both have all along asserted positively that they believed Go Between to be a gelding. The present physical characteristics of the horse are not such that the fact of his being a stallion would be noted by any person who had reason to believe otherwise. The incident is considered closed. Alex Shields has said nothing. He will send out a typewritten statement to the press if he has anything to say. August Belmont, James It. Keene, J. H. Bradford, W. II. Knapp and F. R. Hitchcock were the stewards pesent at the meeting which was held at the office of the Jockey Club in the Windsor Arcade.
