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of doing things. That accomplished writer printed this 

 about him: 



"He is the quickest-moving horse that I ever saw in 

 harness, trotter or pacer. No other trotter, in my opinion, 

 has such remarkable use of its legs and none can so quickly 

 move from a 2:05 into a two-minute clip. His gait seems 

 suddenly to change when he opens up in high speed and 

 one constantly wonders just how much faster he could step 

 should Tommy feed him more gas. He is apt to rush at 

 any time, especially if the runner comes up to him suddenly, 

 and on the occasion of his 1:591/4 mile this was the case 

 shortly after the three-eighths pole was passed. He hit a 

 terrific clip instantaneously and the horsemen with whom 

 I was standing remarked that he was flying. We have had 

 a number of horses whose stroke was just as rapid, but none 

 who could handle themselves after the acrobatic fashion of 

 Arion Guy. As a general thing rapid striders among the 

 smaller horses do not stride far, but for his inches Arion 

 Guy certainly discounts that rule. He does not go at it with 

 the rhythmical precision of that beautifully gaited stallion 

 Etawah 2:03, but there is more flash to his gait. He has a 

 way of using his body muscles that reminds me of Minor 

 Heir. The muscles along their backs appeared to creep and 

 crawl as if they were boring themselves through the air." 



Entering his fifth year Arion Guy does not appear to have 

 gained in heighth and looks as if his growth upward at least 

 has ceased though that is merely an opinion and has no value 

 nor would it make any difference if it had. He is an inch 

 and a quarter over 15 hands so that he is not a small horse. 

 It has been remarked of him that, unlike Lee Axworthy, he 

 is not a "big little" horse. He is not of the same general 

 make-up despite their very close relationship. (One was a 

 son of Guy Axworthy with a Bingen dam, the other is a son 

 of Guy Axworthy with a dam by a son of Bingen.) But 

 Arion Guy, like Lee Axworthy, looks the part of a fast trot- 

 ter and is not out of horse proportion anywhere. Maybe 

 that observation is of no particular value as it is made about 

 two horses that have established reputation as speed marvels. 

 There is that about him which prevents any one from at- 



