The six-year-old son of Point Given has passed away after a workout at the Payson Park Training Center as the result of a heart problem. After working six furlongs in 1:17 4/5 Go Between pulled himself up and was cooling down in his stable when it was discovered that his heart rate was off the chart. Efforts were made to bring it down, but nothing would drop it below 200 beats per minute. Shortly after he laid down in his stable and passed.
Go Between earned just shy of $3M in his racing career, and was the winner of eight races in 27 starts. He also finished second or third in 13 of those races. Last August he won the 2008 Pacific Classic (gr.1) in his usual come-from-behind fashion by a head. His other wins include the Virginia Derby (gr. IIT), Fayette Stakes (gr. III), Palm Beach Stakes (gr. IIIT), Sunshine Millions Classic, Unbridled Breeders’ Cup Handicap, and Cherokee River Stables Classic Stakes. Peter Vegso had Go Between pointed towards the Sunshine Millions as a prep race for the Santa Anita Handicap (gr. I).
“It’s a devastation, really,” Vegso said. “It’s a real blow. He was terrific. He was the epitome of the highs and lows of the breeding business. We had some tremendous moments. I loved his Virginia Derby. And in the Pacific Classic, he just got him (Well Armed) at the wire, coming from off the pace. Sometimes he made it, sometimes he didn’t.”
Go Between will be cremated and the remains will be buried at Vegso’s farm near Ocala, Florida.
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