Word: palomino
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...like anything but a big money man. His ancient riding boots were scuffed and patched; the brown leather chaps over his faded Levi's had seen better days. But he had the casual swagger of a champ. He ran a cool eye over Gold Dollar, a mean-looking palomino, and climbed aboard. Outside the chute, San Francisco's Cow Palace echoed to the voice of the announcer: "The first three-time all-around cowboy champion in history-Jim Shoulders...
...pooped." That still left Godfrey fans with his morning TV and radio stint and his Monday-evening Talent Scouts. In the Wednesday farewell, televised from his Virginia estate, Airman Godfrey, flying into camera in a helicopter, introduced such hearthside pals as Jocko the donkey, Petie the monkey, Goldie the palomino and a poodle named Chippie. He also read a wire from CBS TV President Merle Jones: "Please don't give up any other shows." To a Manhattan interviewer, Godfrey earlier confided some of his trials: "Every Wednesday night I'd go out of the stage door and every...
...West, they adapted their breeds, e.g., the cowboy's quarter-horse, the gentleman farmer's Tennessee walking horse, the American saddle horse, to suit the jobs at hand. The famed Pony Express brought 500 top-quality horses, ranging from three-quarter English thoroughbreds to golden California palomino mustangs, to supply relays for the rugged 2,000-mile route from St. Joseph, Mo., over the Rockies and west to Sacramento. Calif...
...Movie Cowboy Roy Rogers and his wife Dale Evans top the bill at rodeos and circus stops across the country, where they put across a spiritual appeal that sends pistol-packing eight-year-olds off to Sunday school and their moist-eyed parents off to church. With their famed palomino horse, Trigger, they turn out a half-hour television show each week into which they are injecting more and more of a Christian message for the televiewers of 80 stations. They help many religious causes, such as Billy Graham's evangelizing of Britain last spring. Dale...
...does not intend to work the Dancer hard but merely to "blow him out"?let him run to clear his lungs and get his system unkinked for the afternoon's business. Bernie Everson, the Dancer's regular exercise boy, mounts and, with Winfrey in the lead on a palomino pony, walks the Dancer slowly out to the big track. From the stands, the dockers can see a quarter of a mile away that the Big Grey is out for a gallop. Another Vanderbilt horse, Find, jogs ahead and then breaks into a gallop. Everson follows with the Big Grey...