ARION GUY 93 



No racing engagements were made for the colt for the 

 year 1921. By the conditions he was barred from the 

 $15,000 purse at North Randall. He had passed to the 

 ownership of Mrs. H. K. Devereux and with true "sports- 

 manship", if the word may be permitted, she did not want 

 the impression to prevail that the race was made for her 

 young trotter. There were no other purses to speak of and 

 the plans made for him in the Spring contemplated a two- 

 minute or better record and nothing more. He was prepared 

 w^ith that in view and was started but three times during the 

 season. His first start was at the second meeting at North 

 Randall and the mile in 2:03 was the trotting record for the 

 season to that date, August 9tli. The fractional time of the 

 mile was 31'^, 1:03, 1:33^, 2:03, showing that the last 

 quarter was trotted in 29'^4 seconds and proving that the 

 colt had lost none of his "whizz". The effort was merely 

 to lower his record of 2:04'*^. 



At Syracuse he was started to beat 2:03. his record, and 

 he trotted the mile in 2:01 which made him the world's cham- 

 pion four-year-old trotter. The fractional time of that mile 

 was, 31, l:00yo, 1:307^, 2:01. The middle half, it will be 

 seen, was trotted in 59^ seconds forecasting a two-minute 

 mile in the near future. 



The effort to add another member to the family of two- 

 minute trotters was made at Lexington, Ky., October 6th and 

 was, as had been anticipated, a most successful one. One 

 writer on turf topics who saw the mile trotted, it w as an effort 

 to beat 2:01, said: "The task set for the colt looked like an 

 enormous one but he surprised the crowd by trotting to a 

 record of 1:591/), finishing strong and full of trot." The 

 official fractional time shows that he reached the quarter in 

 30 seconds and that the half was trotted in a minute; the 

 third quarter was covered in 29-^4 seconds and the final 

 quarter in the same time, making the time of the last half 

 of the mile 5914 seconds. 



Tliere had never before been a four-year-old two-min- 

 ute trotter and the enthusiasm shown at the conclusion of the 

 mile has probably not been equaled at a harness meeting 

 since the dav Lou Dillon trotted the first two-minute mile 



