![]() (From Old Corral image collection) Above is Rex Allen, 'The Arizona Cowboy', with his chocolate brown Koko, 'The Miracle Horse of the Movies'. Many B western fans consider Koko as the most beautiful of the movie horses. (Scuttlebutt is that Koko was originally going to be the mount of Dale Evans, but the horse was too much for her.) Jim Tipton's Find A Grave website has a picture of the grave marker for Koko (1940 - 1967). The horse is buried at the Railroad Park in Willcox, Arizona: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8425882
![]() (From Old Corral image collection) Above is Rex Allen on Koko, a Morgan with a distinctive white mane, tail and blaze as well as a dark-brown coat (which appeared to be black in the black-and-white films). Koko was billed as 'The Miracle Horse of the Movies'. The photo below is often identified as being Rex and Koko, but apparently that is incorrect. The horse is a 'no name' that Allen rode in his first oater before acquiring Koko. (Thanks to Sky Corbin for his help on straightening out this Koko vs 'no-name' horse issue.)
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![]() (From Old Corral image collection) As the B western era faded, Monte Hale rode the trails in a series at Republic, including UNDER COLORADO SKIES (Republic, 1947). Hale rode a horse named Pardner ... or was it Partner ? |