The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-26

name from Lamplighters old conquer
or. Hamburg is the favorite with most
of the visitors to the ranch and when
he is led out in the procession that
goes on parade on state occasions at
the ranch, he receives the lions share
of the gallery applause. He is every
inch race horse and one looking at
MIN has no difficulty in believing the
stories that are told of the races that
he has won. 1t is enough to make
horseman out of a preacher.
But the horsemen at the ranch are
jealous if a full measure of praise is
not accorded to imported Bathampton
when he is brought out. This colt was
brought to the ranch as a youngster
and was raised and trained in the Bit
ter Root. His debut was made with
the copper and green and he kept it
well to the fore when he was on the
turf. Since his retirement he has sent
to the tracks of the East and West
some phenomenal racing youngsters,
who have easily maintained the laurels
that their sire Won Some of the finest
performances of this season have been
handsome bay, every inch a race
horse, and if a visitor at the ranch
wants to stand we'll with Sam Lucas
and his assistants he must not fail to
give to Bathampton the praise that is
his due.
Down at the other end of the ranch
from Tammany castle is the home Of
the honor of having made famous the
Bitter Root stock form and it's horses
Prodgal himself won one of the most
celebrated of trotting races on the
grand circuit at Detroit in the last year
of his racing. He is game and con-
sistent performer, willing to make any
effort that is required of him and he
was one of the chief figures in his class
during the seasons that he was on the
track. But his chief fame has been
won by his colts and he ranks to-day as
the greatest sire of trotting stock in
the world. The performances of his
youngsters in the East have been phe-
nomenal and prominent turf critics
have asserted that there is no young
sire in the trottng world that can
equal the showing that has been made
by Prodigal during the few years that
his colts have been in track competi-
ton.
These are the horses whose portraits
appear upon this page. Each one of
them would be credit to any breeding
farm in the Bitter Root they are all
together 70 II iS,hr nd
they are not all. There are Montana.
imp. Inverness, Sam Lucas and The
Pepper in the thoroughbred class and
Milroy and Ponce de Leon, the COM
panions of Prodigal at the lower sta
bles, comprise with the horses already
mentioned, list that cannot be equaled
by any other stock farm.
The ranch record on the track for
two years has been confined solely to
the work of colts. At the principal
tracks in the East and the West the
colts that carry the copper and green
have distinguished themselves signally
They have demonstrated anew the
truth of the claims that have beel.
made for Montana as a breeding place
for racing stock. 1t has been shown
beyond doubt that all of the claims
that have been put forth have had good
foundation. Those Who were, early in
the history of M0ntana's stock indus
try, inclined to scott at the idea of
successful horse coming from this state
have changed their opinions. They at
first began to consider more seriously
the animals that We're sent from here
and then to admit that there was some
good in them.
The horses that are portrayed here
with are representatives of the several
strains of breeding that are being in
termingled on the Bitter Root farm.
Once this system of breeding is car
ried out the Montana horse that is the
result should be a world beaten In
the meantime Montana takes pride in
the horses that have won fame for her
stock interests and they deserve it