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A RANGE HORSE THAT HAD STAMINA. "Buffalo Bill Cody said recently at New York: "I have on my range out near Cody. Wyo.. an old i range horse that is noted for its stamina in long races. "I ast winter one of my cowlsiys came to me and asked permission to take the horse to Evanston. on the Pacific Railroad, near Ogden. There was to be a race from Evanston to Denver, the long course of hundreds of miles being over mountain, prairie ami desert, or. in other words, up hill, down hill, and on the level. All grades of horses, from thoroughbreds to range horses, were being entered for the race. An offer was made even for Davenports Arabian. Well, when the eowlsiy came to me and asked unto permit him to enter the old range horse I protested. I told him it was more than 400 miles, over two mountain ranges. liefore he would get to the place where the race started, and that it would cost like the dickens even to get the horse to Evanston. But my man would not lie deterred. Ill get him there, and it wont cost a cent. be said. HOW? I inquired. Why. ride him. d — it. he replied, and I was so struck by his earnestness that I told him to go ahead. "Well, he rode away on the 450-mile trip to the point of starting the race, crossing the Shoshone Mountains on the way. as well as another range He arrived in Evanston only a short time before the race was to start. He had no time for rest or re freshjiient. The other horses had had days of rest and every possible attention, and many of them bad beea in training. Feeding his horse and allowing to it and himself a few hours of rest, the cowboy took his place among the racers. He astonished everybody by making 112 miles the first twenty four hours, loo miles the next day. and ninety miles the day next following il. and finally won the race to Denver. That race had been over mountains, alkali plains and prairie country. The course was regarded one In which the stamina of a horse in all kinds of travel could be tested, and that old range horse lioat them all."
