q6 the two-minute trotters 



probably have done him great harm to 'tear into' him for a 

 mile, so I resisted the temptation to do so. 



"About this time, Mr. Shaffer having bought the colt 

 back from Mr. Hughes came to my stable to look him over 

 and said that having sold all the rest of his horse holdings 

 except two or three favorite mares which he had pensioned 

 he would like to sell the colt. During the Trots that fall 

 Mr. Thomas W. Murphy became interested in the youngster 

 and after driving him a half in 1:03'%|^, last quarter in 31^ 

 seconds against a very strong wind, (this was the first time 

 a stranger had ever pulled a line over him) bought him and 

 shipped him with his other horses to Poughkeepsie. 



"Arion Guy wore light half-round bar shoes in front, 

 light swedged shoes behind. The front angle was 48 and 

 the hind angle 53. He wore very light quarter boots in front 

 and shin boots with speedy-cut attachment behind; no scalp- 

 ers nor toe weights. I understand that the shoeing has never 

 been changed. I used a Bristol bit with a chin strap buckled 

 into the check instead of a check bit. 



"He never gave me any trouble about his gait, he was 

 always clean-gaited, went straight and true and never re- 

 quired side poles, side straps or any other gaiting devices. 

 He always was a very easy, nice colt to train and while I 

 had him he never made a speed break." 



Harold Childs has been one of our most successful de- 

 velopers of colt trotters and his success with Arion Guy but 

 added to the long list of such successes he has scored. The 

 innate modesty of the man, his total lack of inclination to 

 brag was never more clearly shown than in the letter he has 

 written for use in this volume. 



There has never been any question raised as to the game- 

 ness of Arion Guy but some adverse comment as to his dam 

 became current shortly after Mr. Murphy purchased him. 

 Perhaps something of the early history of the dam, Margaret 

 Parrish, will be of interest. There never was any question 

 as to her speed nor that she tried as far as she could go, 

 which is always the best evidence of courage. But there was 

 a time in her career when she suffered from the effects of a 

 severe attack of sickness and one of the after effects was a 



