Trigger (July 4, 1934 – July 3, 1965) was a palomino horse who appeared in American Western films with his owner and rider, cowboy star Roy Rogers.
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Pedigree
Trigger, originally named Golden Cloud, was a horse born in San Diego, California.
Though often mistaken for a Tennessee Walking Horse, he was sired by a Thoroughbred, with his dam being an unregistered (grade mare which, like Trigger, was a palomino).
Movie director William Witney, who directed Roy Rogers and Trigger in many of their movies, declared that Trigger had a slightly different lineage — that his sire was a "registered" palomino stallion horse (though no known palomino registry existed at the time of Trigger's birth) and that his dam horse was a Thoroughbred, borne of a "cold-blood" mare.
Horses other than Golden Cloud also portrayed "Trigger" over the years, none of which were related to Golden Cloud. The two most prominent of these horses were the palominos "Little Trigger" and "Trigger Jr." (a Tennessee Walking Horse listed as "Allen's Gold Zephyr" in the Tennessee Walking Horse registry).
