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Trigger (horse)
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Trigger (1932–3 July 1965) was a 15.3 hands (63 in; 1.60 m) golden palomino, made famous in American Western films with his owner/rider, cowboy star Roy Rogers. Many people mistakenly think Trigger was a Tennessee Walker, but his sire was a Thoroughbred and his dam a grade (unregistered) mare. His golden color came from his mother, a palomino. (Trigger, Jr, who was actually no relation to Trigger, was in fact, a registered Tennessee Walking Horse.) Originally called Golden Cloud, he remained a stallion his entire life, but was never bred and has no descendants.
Golden Cloud made his movie debut as the mount of Maid Marian, played by Olivia de Havilland in The Adventures of Robin Hood. A short while later, when Roy was preparing to make his first movie, he was offered a choice of five rented "movie" horses to ride. He chose Golden Cloud. Roy bought him that same year, 1938, and renamed him Trigger for his quickness, not only of foot but of mind. Trigger knew 60 tricks and could walk 150 steps on his hind legs.
Trigger was ridden by Rogers in many of his motion pictures, becoming much loved by the youthful audience that saw him on film and in Rogers' 1950s television series with his wife Dale Evans, who rode her trusty buckskin Quarter Horse Buttermilk.
Trigger became the most famous horse in film entertainment, even having his own Dell comic book recounting his exploits.
After Trigger died in 1965, his hide was stretched over a plaster likeness and put on display at the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum in Victorville, California which has since been relocated to Branson, Missouri.
Around rodeo circuits, especially Cheyenne Frontier Days, "Triggerette" became a nickname for a trusted assistant for the rodeo committee.
Trigger, a character played by Roger Lloyd Pack in the British sitcom Only Fools & Horses, is named after Roy Rogers' Trigger because he apparently "looks like a horse".