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if he were just a good-natured, well-doing horse that had not 

 yet got his picture "on the front page". And that is why 

 George is a good caretaker and it is also one reason why 

 Arion Guy has always progressed. The combination has 

 been a happy and a successful one. May it continue until 

 all the possible honors have been acquired. 



Arion Guy is the product of modern breeding, intelligent 

 breaking and developing, skillful training and driving and 

 capable caretaking and is justly entitled to be a champion. 



Mr. Harold Childs, of Lexington, Ky., who developed 

 Arion Guy tells the story of the early lessons of the four- 

 year-old champion in the following highly interesting way: 



"Arion Guy was placed with me early in 1919 by Mr. 

 Al D. Hughes, then Superintendent of Mr. C. B. Shaffer's 

 Cold Stream Farm, he having purchased him from Mr. 

 Shaffer and wanted him broken and developed. 



'T found the youngster to be very sensible and with a 

 clever disposition both in and out of the stable. He was no 

 trouble to break but had great nerve force and was full of 

 'pep' and there is no doubt that rough usage or harsh treat- 

 ment of any kind would have ruined him. As he was but 

 two and entirely undeveloped as to speed I brought him 

 along slowly but soon found that he was beautifully gaited 

 and had a great amount of natural trotting speed for a short 

 brush and so I worked him well within himself with the idea 

 of getting him thoroughly seasoned and his muscles and 

 lungs well developed before asking too much of him in the 

 speed line. But I would brush him right 'up on his toes' for 

 a short distance at the end of his work and would do that 

 two or three times a week. 



"About the first of July I began working him slow miles 

 and repeat every other day with an occasional brush at the 

 finish and kept gradually dropping him down until fall when 

 I started him at a record meeting and gave him a breeder's 

 record of 2:2014 which he took with all possible ease, with a 

 brush through the stretch at the finish. I have no doubt but 

 that he could have trotted in 2:12 that day but as that was 

 only the fourth time he had been asked to beat 2:30 it would 



