Roy Rogers Horse Fetches $266,500

Telegraph(UK) ^ | July 16th, 2010

[Liberty Valance]

The Day That Trigger Died
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOUzZcxUcr8&feature=related

</;o)))~ *neigh neigh*

[Liberty Valance]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QEfo1RnRGU&feature=related
Roy and Dale with Trigger

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1pVSFzJGSk&feature=related
Roy Rogers & Trigger

[Psalm 144]

This stuff is sad to me. I loved that show when I was a kid.

[funfan]

Thanks for posting that it makes me nostalgic for the good ole days when at least in my opinion TV was entertainment
now it is pretty much crap.

[LukeL]

Good to see a RFD TV got Trigger, something like that belongs to the public.

[screaming eagle2]

from what I heard,it was a good thing

[Hillbillary]

Good to see a RFD TV got Trigger, something like that belongs to the public.

I agree, strange the Telegraph(UK) publishes this but not the American media.

[I still care]

A bit of Trivia - If you want to see Trigger alive and prancing around in a fantastic movie out on blu-ray in his “salad days”, give a watch to “The Adventures of Robin Hood” with Errol Flynn.

He is Maid Marian’s (Olivia De Havilland) horse, the beautiful palomino she is riding through the forest in the ambush scene.

[Rebelbase]

How much do you think Ted Williams head will go for?

[I still care]

Here is the only picture I could find of him in the movie. It isn't very good - there are so many pictures of that movie on the net but not many with Trigger, or "Golden Cloud" as was his name then.

By the way, I have the blu-ray Robin Hood, and it is the best adaptation to blu-ray that I have. Not only did they do a wonderful job (it's like I've never seen the movie before, there is so much detail) - but it has excellent features with it, like back scenes with the cast and extras hanging out in the woods, excellent commentaries, etc.

[ArtDodger]

Roy’s museum only lasted a decade after his death. Sounds as if someone was looking out for themselves...Roy chose poorly.

[Dixie Yooper]

Roger's stuffed German Shepherd Bullet, who was also the family pet, sold for $35,000 (£22,890), also to RFD-TV.

I'm glad to see that RFD-TV decided to buy Bullet. It would have been really sad if he and Trigger had been split up.

[mono]

Happy Trails!

[MozarkDawg]

I still think Trigger (and Bullet) ought to be in the Smithsonian.

[sergeantdave]

Can you imagine any politically correct dope in Hollywood naming their dog “Bullet” today?

[The Wizard]

politically correct dopes don’t name their dogs Bullet, only real people do....and Killer, and Wolff and Bear...etc....

[IMR 4350]

Back in the late 50’s, 60 at the latest I would say, we were going through a line to see everything Roy Rogers, when the woman in front of us had her finger bitten off by Trigger.

She was petting Trigger on his nose. My old man told her she was going to get bit. When she turned her head to tell my old man to mind his own business, off came the finger.

Trigger gnawed on it for awhile then spit it out.

[Steelfish]

Thanks- You sold me on the Blu-Ray Robin Hood with Errol Flynn!