Oh, talk not to mc of a name great in story. 

 The days of our youth are the days of our glory. 



— Lord Byron. 



ARION GUY 



Champion Four-Year-Old Trotter 

 Record 1:591/2 



RION GUY 1:591/4 is the youngest trotter that has 

 ever entered the two-minute list, and that is notable 

 for the other reason that but one pacer of that age 

 has enrolled his name in that small assembly — William, 

 who at four took a record of exactly two minutes. But it 

 can be said for Arion Guy that he was in all probability a 

 two-minute trotter at the age of three years. There is, to be 

 sure, room for argument that he was not capable of any such 

 mile speed before he reached the age of four, and if the 

 argument were held it could not be settled, for there is no 

 known means of carrying the four-year-old trotting champion 

 back to the earlier age. But he showed in his race in the Ken- 

 tucky Futurity that he possessed the necessary speed, and as 

 he had the strength and was, as he now is, absolutely sound, 

 there appears to be ample foundation for the belief that had 

 he been conditioned through the year for one fast mile in the 

 fall he would have trotted that mile in or below two minutes. 

 Glance at the fractional time of his miles and note the 

 flight of speed he exhibited in every one of them. He 

 trotted the final quarter of the first mile in 291/0 seconds, 

 and the mile was trotted in 2:04''^4- I^ the second heat the 

 final quarter was negotiated in thirty seconds, though the 

 mile was a slow one, raced at 2:10 or slower speed, part 

 of the way. The third quarter of the third and last mile was 

 trotted in 29^0 seconds and the entire mile in 2:04'*^. A 

 trotter to go a mile in two minutes must have better than 

 two-minute speed for part of the way. To put it in other 



