The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
ARION GUYS RACE
BEST ON RECORD
Had Started in First Contest
Less Than Month Before
Kentucky Futurity.

BY less than half second the aver
age of Arion Guy'S three winning heats
In the Kentucky Futurlty missed being
the fastest ever made by three-year-
old trotter. When Peter Volo won the
race in 1914 he reeled off his heats In
2:07A, 2 :05 and V :03 w. and in 1917
The Real Lady trotted her miles In 2:05,
2:07A and 2:03%, which figure out a
fraction of second faster than those
Of last weeks winner. but no other colt
or filly than these two champions ever
equalled Arion Guys race. All things
considered his performance was per-
haps the greatest Of them all, for the son
of Guy Axworthy. 2:o3%. and Margaret
Parrish. 2:06A, scored down In a field Of
horses for the first race less than four
weeks before he won the Kentucky Flu
turity. 1t is q singular and significant
fact that all three Of these great three
year-olds were developed and trained by
Thomas w. Murphy.
To New York horsemen one Of the
pleasing features of the Kentucky Flu
turity Of 1920 Is the fact that the win
per was bred by the late Jacob Rup-
pert at the Hudson River Stock Farm.
Poughkeepsle, and is now owned by
Charles c. Lloyd, one of the old time
road riders OF New York. who came
into the sport in the early days Of the
Harlem River Speedway and afterward
Joined James Butler. c. X. G. Billings
and others in buying the Empire track
for the New York Driving Club of which
he was for several years the president.
Mr. Lloyd bought Arion Guy at Lex
ington last winter without having seen
him and wholly on the advice of Muir
ply, one Of whose warmest admirers and
best friends he is and long has been.
Harry II. Stokes, who drove both
Peter Manning and Arion Guy In their
great races at Lexington, Is a compare
lively unknown man to followers OF the
Grand Circuit. He halls from the West
and has been driving the fast three-year-
old PAGER Tranpsafe and others this
season for the Signal Hill Stock Farm.
Springfield, Ohio. He also drove to their
records the trotters Sis Bing. 2 1901 {:
Crystal Border. 2:o9A and Golden
Spear :09% He had never driven
either of Murphy's champions until he
drove them at Lexington. Besides sub
stituting for Murphy he drove the black
trotter Don de Lopez for Ed Geers on
the day of the Futurity and won with
him as well as with his own colt Tramp
safe, making 1t three straight for the
clever young reinsman.
Scarcely less brilliant than the per-
formance of Peter Manning In the Tran
sylvania were those Of Media and NY
Choice, the two young trotters that
forced him to go the fastest three heats
on record to win. My Choice is a five
year-old bay mare by Siliko, 2:0SA, the
Kentucky Futurity winner Of 1905. out OF
Matte by Ashland Wilkes. 2:17h, and
is owned by Edward and Joseph Mad
den, the sons of John E. Madden. She
made n record of 2 15A in a winning
race at Louisville when three years old.
but had done nothing noteworthy since
then until she forced Peter Manning to
trot In :03 to beat her In the first heat
OF the Pennsylvania. Media. bred and
owned by w. B. Dickerman of New York,
had won six straight races and was I'M
beaten this season when she met the
Murphy champion. Though her colors
were lowered at last she made him step
the second and third heats In o2% and
2:021a to win. Her record OF 2;03A.
made at Columbus, was the fastest OF
the season when the Lexington meeting
opened. Harry Fleming, the capable
Young trainer who developed and drove
Media, handled Rose Scott for Murphy
in the junior division Of the Kentucky
Futurity.