Horse Breeds With Pictures Biography
Source(Gogle.com.pk)When Bonanza's producer, David Dortort and actor Lorne Greene looked over a dozen animals in 1959, they found the Buckskin horse, a superior animal, and fell immediately in love with him. The horse is a true Buckskin horse, denoted by his black markings; the mane, tail and the legs, where the Dunny horse has reddish-color markings, a common misconception with the horses, that are a result of the dilution gene. In short, there is no such horse as a Buckskin breed. Many horse breeds, from a wild Mustang to a domestic horse, can have the Buckskin color. Sometimes they are considered a color breed.
The tan color is a sign of the horse's superior genetics; stamina, very fast runners over a short distance, placid temperament, hard feet and hard-boned, with a long lifespan. Like "hard, wet leather", there is no such thing as a bad Buckskin and they have superior characteristics. Lorne's horse was 12 years old, stood 15.1 hands high and weighed 1,100 pounds.
The series was cancelled in 1972. Lorne bought the horse from the stable because he was fond of the animal and was fearful something bad would happen to him. That year, Lorne donated the horse to the Fran Joswick Therapeutic Riding Center in San Juan Capistrano, California, where he would spend the rest of his life at--instead of going to the glue factory, where horses are turned into glue. The facility is specially for mentally and physically challenged children and the children loved Buck. He had many good years as a therapeautic riding horse until his passing in 1992, at the ripe age of 45 years old. Buck's legend lives on as Roy Rogers, the several Triggers ... Pal ... Dale Evans and Buttermilk
Roy Rogers rode a number of horses during his film and television careers --- they were all billed as "Trigger". In over a quarter century performing in public, he used three main Palominos:
1. The original, known on movie sets as "the Old Man".
2. Little Trigger, featured on the cover of Life magazine in 1943 and exclusively in SON OF PALEFACE (Paramount, 1952).
3. Trigger, Jr., a Tennessee Walker stallion used mostly on personal appearances and in the movie that bears his name.
The original Trigger was born in 1934 on a ranch in San Diego. (Trigger's registration form information was first published in The Old Cowboy Picture Show newsletter by Leo Pando in 2004. It was made available by fan George Mudryj and the President of the Palomino Horse Association, Steve Rebuck.)
Roy Rogers expert Robert W. Phillips originally believed Trigger was foaled on a San Diego ranch partly owned by Bing Crosby. Breed expert Pat Mefford has never been able to confirm this and notes Crosby's ranch was in Ventura.
Trigger was born from breeding stock owned by Captain Larry Good. The colt's second owner was Roy F. Cloud Jr., a breeder originally from Noblesville, Indiana. Cloud managed a ranch in San Diego and it was he who first named the Palomino colt Golden Cloud. At around three years of age, the horse was sold to the Hudkins Stables which provided livestock for the movie industry in southern California.
Trigger's bloodlines are not confirmed on his registration form. When discussing Trigger's origin in countless interviews, Rogers usually said he was "half thoroughbred and half cold-blooded; his sire was a race horse at Caliente, and his dam was a cold-blooded Palomino." According to the registration form the dam's color was chestnut. Pat Mefferd believes Trigger was at most one quarter thoroughbred.
Before Roy Rogers bought him outright, the Golden Cloud appeared in a few movies as a cast movie horse including the Errol Flynn classic ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (Warner Brothers, 1938) ridden by Olivia DeHaviland/Maid Marian. Co-editor of The Old Cowboy Picture Show newsletter, Leo Pando, was the first to spot the Golden Cloud ridden by Gilbert Roland in the black and white film JUAREZ (Warner Brothers, 1939) starring Betty Davis and Paul Muni. Eagle-eyed Trigger fan Larry Roe was first to notice the Golden Cloud in the Joe E. Brown comedy SHUT MY BIG MOUTH (Columbia, 1942).
Roy Rogers became aware of the Golden Cloud in 1937 when he was auditioning horses for his first starring feature, UNDER WESTERN STARS (Republic, 1938). Legend has it that sidekick Smiley Burnette suggested naming the Palomino "Trigger" after someone commented that he was "quick on the trigger."
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