diff --git a/spacy/gold.pyx b/spacy/gold.pyx
index 5adef7bf7..ea4e1817b 100644
--- a/spacy/gold.pyx
+++ b/spacy/gold.pyx
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import itertools
 from .syntax import nonproj
 from .tokens import Doc
 from . import util
+from .util import minibatch
 
 
 def tags_to_entities(tags):
@@ -144,23 +145,6 @@ def _min_edit_path(cand_words, gold_words):
     return prev_costs[n_gold], previous_row[-1]
 
 
-def minibatch(items, size=8):
-    """Iterate over batches of items. `size` may be an iterator,
-    so that batch-size can vary on each step.
-    """
-    if isinstance(size, int):
-        size_ = itertools.repeat(8)
-    else:
-        size_ = size
-    items = iter(items)
-    while True:
-        batch_size = next(size_)
-        batch = list(cytoolz.take(int(batch_size), items))
-        if len(batch) == 0:
-            break
-        yield list(batch)
-
-
 class GoldCorpus(object):
     """An annotated corpus, using the JSON file format. Manages
     annotations for tagging, dependency parsing and NER."""
diff --git a/spacy/util.py b/spacy/util.py
index 460954b8f..d15e33cca 100644
--- a/spacy/util.py
+++ b/spacy/util.py
@@ -251,35 +251,6 @@ def get_async(stream, numpy_array):
         return array
 
 
-def itershuffle(iterable, bufsize=1000):
-    """Shuffle an iterator. This works by holding `bufsize` items back
-    and yielding them sometime later. Obviously, this is not unbiased –
-    but should be good enough for batching. Larger bufsize means less bias.
-    From https://gist.github.com/andres-erbsen/1307752
-
-    iterable (iterable): Iterator to shuffle.
-    bufsize (int): Items to hold back.
-    YIELDS (iterable): The shuffled iterator.
-    """
-    iterable = iter(iterable)
-    buf = []
-    try:
-        while True:
-            for i in range(random.randint(1, bufsize-len(buf))):
-                buf.append(iterable.next())
-            random.shuffle(buf)
-            for i in range(random.randint(1, bufsize)):
-                if buf:
-                    yield buf.pop()
-                else:
-                    break
-    except StopIteration:
-        random.shuffle(buf)
-        while buf:
-            yield buf.pop()
-        raise StopIteration
-
-
 def env_opt(name, default=None):
     if type(default) is float:
         type_convert = float
@@ -416,6 +387,23 @@ def normalize_slice(length, start, stop, step=None):
     return start, stop
 
 
+def minibatch(items, size=8):
+    """Iterate over batches of items. `size` may be an iterator,
+    so that batch-size can vary on each step.
+    """
+    if isinstance(size, int):
+        size_ = itertools.repeat(8)
+    else:
+        size_ = size
+    items = iter(items)
+    while True:
+        batch_size = next(size_)
+        batch = list(cytoolz.take(int(batch_size), items))
+        if len(batch) == 0:
+            break
+        yield list(batch)
+
+
 def compounding(start, stop, compound):
     """Yield an infinite series of compounding values. Each time the
     generator is called, a value is produced by multiplying the previous
@@ -445,6 +433,35 @@ def decaying(start, stop, decay):
         nr_upd += 1
 
 
+def itershuffle(iterable, bufsize=1000):
+    """Shuffle an iterator. This works by holding `bufsize` items back
+    and yielding them sometime later. Obviously, this is not unbiased –
+    but should be good enough for batching. Larger bufsize means less bias.
+    From https://gist.github.com/andres-erbsen/1307752
+
+    iterable (iterable): Iterator to shuffle.
+    bufsize (int): Items to hold back.
+    YIELDS (iterable): The shuffled iterator.
+    """
+    iterable = iter(iterable)
+    buf = []
+    try:
+        while True:
+            for i in range(random.randint(1, bufsize-len(buf))):
+                buf.append(iterable.next())
+            random.shuffle(buf)
+            for i in range(random.randint(1, bufsize)):
+                if buf:
+                    yield buf.pop()
+                else:
+                    break
+    except StopIteration:
+        random.shuffle(buf)
+        while buf:
+            yield buf.pop()
+        raise StopIteration
+
+
 def read_json(location):
     """Open and load JSON from file.