The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-28
KLAMATH Is A FAor TRorrER
Experts Consider Him One OF the Won
ders OF the Turf

Experts Consider Him One OF the Won
drrs OF the Turf
In recent letter inquiring after the
health OF Lady Ophir, or Bob" as the
dam or klamath was called before she
| became famous as the mother of one
OF the swiftest trotters i'm the world
Tom Raymond writes from the Raw
mond ranch, Santa Anna. Cal, to +. ]
keenan, of this city: Spokane should
De one OF the best racing points in the
West. If their meetings were con-
Quoted properly, so as to regain the
confidence of the horsemen, as well as
the public, Spokane would get back on
the map again.
Il expect to lower Klamaths record
several seconds next season. He has
SHOWN me that he can trot i'm 2:O5 or
better in the third or fourth heat"
hlamath's dam, Lady Ophir, or
Bob" as Mr.. Raymond still prefers TO
call her. is wintering comfortably at
the spokane race track. with her two
promising colts, King Altamont. a 2
year-old PAGER, and n yearling flly
and a sucking colt. all by Altamont.
On the blackboard at a prominent
Riverside avenue resort for horsemen
is displayed the announcement: wv
A. Leary of San Francisco. offers TO
match klamath. 2:0S5, best in 5, mile
heats. against any horse in the world.
barring Azote. for $4,000 a side"
Referring to the winter quarters of
the celebrated racers. the Horse Breed
er of December 10. says: "Chehalis.
2:O71s, is now in the stables of Tom
Raymond, the driver of Klamath.
2:OSlk."
In an entertaining article on Foot
prints of Fast Trotters and PAGERS"
for the Horse Review, Murray Howe
says: klamath seems to land per-
fectly fiatfooted and lifts his foot from
the track at exactly the same spot he
strike IL. leaving a clean-cut foot
print, with no slip. and does not dig
his toes in the track. as does Azote or
Nightingale. His gait is very peculiar:
in fact. there never was another fast
horse gated like him. He paddles out,
carries his feet high and seems TO de-
scribe a half circle with each front
foot. His stride is so rapid and short
that his footprints look like a row of
dots, with the same distance between
the two. / think he can brush faster
at the trotting gait than any horse the
world ever saw. and l am not alone in
that belief. as i have heard NJ. T.. Nc
Henry, Jack Curry, Charles THOMPSON
and many others whose opinions should
have weight. express the same belief"
The Breeder and Sportsman, Dec. H.
says: THE published pedigree of Kla-
tiiatns -.Vcr2s luli VI eFTOFS. captain
Werk of Oregon gives the following as
the correct breeding OF Morookus. sire
of klamath: He was by the great Al
lamont. out OF Minnie Tolman, by Lion
Heart. a Canadian horse that was a
model of beauty: second dam Minnie
Rifle, by Rifieman, son of Glencoe:
third dam Tolman's old thoroughbred
mare: her pedigree is lost. but she was
sent to California and bred to Norfolk
The issue was colt which. for his
time, was the fastest and best race
horse in Oregon. The dam OF klamath
was a mare called Bob. She was by
Ophir. out OF the Grizzly mare by Mike.
son OF Vermont. Ophir was a Califor-
mia bred horse. and was brought 10
oregon when quite young. He was
by Shenandoah. out Of a mare by East
on's Dave Hill. Captain Werk il an
authority on pedigrees. and is convers-
ant with the true history OF most of
the oregon horses"
Mr.. keenan, Is OF the opinion that a
race meeting at Spokane's superb
track. with such flyers as these in the
lists. would prove OF greater value 20
Spokane. comparatively. than will
either Of the national conventions 20
St Louis. Confidence is all that r.
lacking. With confidence established.
the matter OF raising the means for
purses would be easy.