Posted on 07/16/2010 9:54:06 PM PDT by Steelfish
Roy Rogers Horse Fetches $266,500 Trigger, the stuffed horse belonging to cowboy actor and singer Roy Rogers, has fetched $266,500 (£174,000) at auction.
16 Jul 2010
Trigger, the palomino horse was stuffed after it died in 1965 Photo: AP Christie's auction house, which ran the sale along with Western auctioneer High Noon Americana, said the collection of items related to Rogers' and wife Dale Evan's roles on television and in the movies brought in $2.9 million.
Trigger, the palomino horse which Rogers had stuffed after it died in 1965, was bought by rural US cable television station RFD-TV for $266,500, while his saddle fetched $386,500 (£252,000) from a private buyer.
Roger's stuffed German Shepherd Bullet, who was also the family pet, sold for $35,000 (£22,890), also to RFD-TV. Other top sellers included Roy Rogers' 1963 Pontiac Bonneville and the Nellybelle jeep, an iconic emblem on the Roy Rogers Show, which ran on television in the 1950s and 1960s.
The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum, which was based in Branson, Missouri was closed in 2009. Roy Rogers died in 1998 at age 86.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The Day That Trigger Died
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOUzZcxUcr8&feature=related
</;o)))~ *neigh neigh*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QEfo1RnRGU&feature=related
Roy and Dale with Trigger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1pVSFzJGSk&feature=related
Roy Rogers & Trigger
This stuff is sad to me. I loved that show when I was a kid.
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.
Good to see a RFD TV got Trigger, something like that belongs to the public.
from what I heard,it was a good thing
I agree, strange the Telegraph(UK) publishes this but not the American media.
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.
How much do you think Ted Williams head will go for?
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.
Roy’s museum only lasted a decade after his death. Sounds as if someone was looking out for themselves...Roy chose poorly.
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.
Happy Trails!
I still think Trigger (and Bullet) ought to be in the Smithsonian.
Can you imagine any politically correct dope in Hollywood naming their dog “Bullet” today?
politically correct dopes don’t name their dogs Bullet, only real people do....and Killer, and Wolff and Bear...etc....
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.
Thanks- You sold me on the Blu-Ray Robin Hood with Errol Flynn!
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