Bear Creek Saloon and Steakhouse

[1] Owner Bobby "Pitts" Dearmond was born and raised in Spearman, Texas before moving to Montana in the late 1970s.

Bobby "Pitts" was featured on ABC Good Morning America a couple of times during this period.

As told by the Füd Report from Montana,[2] the racetrack is a short oval that is surrounding a golden statue of a pig, set up like a "minor league stadium" .

[4] In December 2003 the DeArmond family developed the idea to host indoor pig races in the winter season by using a custom built racetrack on the stage inside the Saloon.

Racemaster Pits DeArmond starts the race process by asking for a volunteer, who rolls a pair of five sided dice.

The rolling of the dice essentially creates coordinates on the betting card determine which slots are assigned to a pig.

Fund raising is part of every race, with the remaining $25 being donated to local scholarships to Carbon County students.

[4] The DeArmond Family, along with the help of State Rep. Alvin Ellis Jr., found a loophole in the law that allowed sports pools, which led to the fund raising system and the use of betting cards.

[4] Ellis said the anti-pig-racing forces were "very heavy-handed, belligerent, and talked nonsense about things like doping (racing) pigs.

Pigs just getting out of the gate
Pigs enjoying a meal after a race!