The Roy Rogers cowboy horse is sold for $ 266,500 in New York

Wednesday, July 14, 1:15 PM New York, July 14 (EFE) .- The stuffed body of the horse Trigger, faithful companion of cowboy Roy Rogers, was sold today for $ 266,500 in New York on the first day of an auction that can be purchased 300 items of the famous cowboy and his wife, Dale Evans, said today at Christie's. The objects offered for sale in the auction conducted by the renowned auction house in collaboration with the institution High Noon Western Americana come from the museum dedicated to the legendary cowboy-who participated in more than one hundred American films and film-television and his wife, who closed their doors last fall. "When we think Trigger, Roy were thinking" he told Efe responsible for special collections at Christie's, Catherine Elkies, who said the horse and Leonard Franklin Slye (1911-1998), known as Roy Rogers, "were like a good marriage." Trigger, a palomino horse race, accompanied Rogers in most of his films and performances during the tour of the cowboy made during the years of World War II around the country. The death of his faithful horse in 1965 badly affected the cowboy and country music pioneer who did not inform his family the animal's death until a year later and decided to dissect rather than bury it. Although the iconic horse started with the highest expected price of the auction, the most successful piece in today's bid, which will have its second day morning, was a saddle which is inscribed the name of the cowboy and is decorated with scenes of rodeo which was awarded for $ 386,500, surpassing 100,000 to $ 150,000 that had been calculated. Another of the stars of the day was the Pontiac Bonneville car spectacular that Roy Rogers acquired in the sixties and is full of details created expressly for him. The vehicle, awarded by $ 254,500, belonged in the first instance Nudie Cohen, the rodeo tailor who made many costumes for Rogers and Evans, who remodeled the original decoration to suit the taste of the cowboy. "He put leather seats, changed door handles for guns and silver dollars embedded in the gear shift and the glove compartment," he told Efe Elkies . In addition, the convertible car, which was based on an expected price tag of between $ 100,000 and $ 150,000 account in its cover with signatures of legendary figures of American music as Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. Rogers, nicknamed "El Rey del West" married on New Year's Eve 1947 with Dale Evans, who became his third wife, and together they formed a family film composed of eight children between adopted and own. "There were the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie of the fifties," EFE said the representative of the company's High Noon Western Americana, Linda Kohn, the couple who created the television series "The Roy Rogers Show" on the air between 1951 and 1957. For Kohn, symbolizing the marriage family values that in this auction will be represented by the dishes that will be released tomorrow and Rogers, his wife and children used for their dinner. "When I went to the museum to pack the items, I saw hundreds of family photos and it was evident that what defined Rogers and Evans were her children and their animals, which were part of the family, "said Catherine Elkies Efe. Average (Not Rated)