Goldrush
This is Goldrush. Actually, he is Goldrush the 3rd. Goldrush is 1/2 Saddlebred and 1/2 Quarterhorse. He is now 28 years old. Yup, he's getting up there in age, but he's hang- in there,- a real trooper. He makes a few public appearances every year as a parade horse,mostly. I won't tell you where he is stabled, but the lady who takes care of him is Dida Hagen, who I saw at one of the Boomtown reunions last year. She was having a great time at this really super event and was up on stage with the cast of the show and got to say a few words. I thought it was really nice to have her up there. When I interviewed Rex for my website, I mentioned that in the early years of the program, (and I'm talking around 1957, the second season or so), his DVD shows a home movie clip where he's riding Goldrush at full gallop doing rodeo stunts across the street from the station and down a track,(the Metropolitan Raceway as it was known as back then). I was kinda stunned to be seeing this! I mean, Rex was vaulting and standing on Goldrush's back with his arms outstretched,(this is called a Roman Stance), I mean really wild stuff here ! I asked him WHAT was he thinking?!!! I mean as entertaining as it was, a little slip and his new tv career in Boston is OVER! Rex agreed with me! He said it wasn't HIS idea! He didn't want to do it! The producers knew he had been a rodeo star and they wanted some rodeo stunts. Rex tried to talk them out of it, saying that Goldrush was a parade horse not a trick-riding horse! If they wanted him to do tricks, they'd have to get him a trick horse. Well, they wanted him to ride Goldrush and that was that. So then I asked Rex how he got Goldrush to go along with this. Well,he had to come up with something. He told me that back then, Pablo had a donkey who shared a stable with Goldrush. It seems the two had quite a friendship and really liked being together. They did not like being apart. Rex got Pablo to bring his donkey down to the end of the trotting track so Goldrush could see him and that's about all the inspiration his horse needed to gallop on down. What a behind the scenes secret,huh?!!! Test your memory with the QUIZ below! |
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