Rustic-Modern Log home renovation blends Bozeman couple’s love of Montana & horses B y Re b ecc a B a l l o t ta P h o t o g r a p h y B y A d r i a n S a n c h e z- G o n z a l e z
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t’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of horse racing when visiting with Tom Trahey and Lynn Kober, owners of CalMont Thoroughbreds, a “breed to race” operation facilitated from their farm south of Bozeman. Trahey described the number of horses they have at the farm on any given day as a “moving target, always changing,” but his dream of breeding them on a Montana farm has never changed.
“We primarily have Tom Trahey and Lynn the brood mares,” he Kober completely gutted and remodeled said. “We could have their log home. gone the route of buying yearlings and prepping them to race, but we chose the ‘home-bred’ approach. Even though it takes more time and more money, we know what we do, who we’re breeding to, what we have, how we’re raising them, how we’re training them, how we’re letting them grow up.”