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Friday, July 16, 2010
Gross; Roy Rogers' stuffed horse Trigger sold at auction
By Eva Dou, Associated Press Writer
[excerpt] NEW YORK — A Nebraska cable TV network ponied up $266,500 for Roy Rogers' stuffed and mounted horse, Trigger, at an auction in New York City on Wednesday.
The movie cowboy's faithful companion was bought by the cable company RFD-TV in Omaha, at a Christie's auction of items from the now-closed Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum in Branson, Mo.
Trigger's sale price outpaced the estimated $100,000 to $200,000 it was expected to fetch, with many other items also selling far above estimate.
RFD-TV's chief financial officer Steve Campione says Rogers reflects the company's values. The network airs mainly agricultural, equine and country living programming.
The company's owner, Patrick Gottsch, wanted to buy the whole Rogers collection but didn't have time to work out the deal, Campione said.
"It came to our attention a little too late," Campione said. "By the time we lined up the right financing and kind of got our arms around the value of the collection, it was literally 24 hours ago."
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Seriously? His faithful companion passes on to the great Prairie in the Sky and Roy has his Earthly remains stuffed? And then years later sold? Criminy. Terry Shiavo got more respect.
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