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Trigger,
the ever faithful steed
Image © Evening Express |
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First
hoof inside the Adelphi
Evening
Express, Monday March 8th, 1954
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As
Roy Rogers and his wife lay in bed with influenza last night
they received sympathy straight from the horse’s mouth - a bunch
of flowers.
For an hour the horse wandered upstairs and downstairs like
Goosey Gander - and finally into his lady’s and master’s chamber.
Some 4,000 of their young subjects , some of them loyal enough
to have taken their places early in the afternoon, crowded the
pavements of Lime Street and kept up a continual chant, "We
want Roy Rogers." But the cowboy was not well enough to oblige
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And
so his horse, Trigger, did his best to fill the breach. He reared
high on his hind legs, took a bow or two outside the Adelphi
Hotel and later - the first horse to set a hoof inside - he
took more bows from a first floor window as hundreds of watchful
boys and girls caught sight of him.
Before that he had made his mark at the registration desk with
a pencil clutched between his teeth, and a nonchalance born
of practice in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Birmingham.
Then he went at a couple of bounds into the residents’ lounge
followed by an entourage of intrigued guests, young excited
admirers and reporters attending their oddest Press reception.
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Rogers' annuals were a popular feature of people's Christmas
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