Posts from Dollor in thread „Duke's Movie Horses“

I am sorry that I dont need to check Dollor's markings since I fed him bathed him cleaned his stall hauled him. Sorry for the misprint of Ohio, I have received letters and had telephone conversations with Priscilla Steenhock on having Dollor there at the museum. Before Dollor died in 1995 and before Ben Johnson died we had a tribute to John Wayne at Ft Worth Texas. There were alot of celebrities their including James Drury who played the Viriginia alot of pictures were taken that night. People from all over came to my ranch to see Dollor and and to take pictures. I also received alot of letters from John Wayne fans from all over the U.S. As for suing the taxidermist he has ruined the horse and the intent of having him at the museum so that the fans could see him. That was the reason for having him mounted in the first place after all Dollor was the horse that carried the legend. I just hope that Dollor can be fixed.

Best regards,
Deb

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Dollor;

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I was not lucky enough to ever see Ol Dollor in the Flesh, But I did get to see and Ride Banner for about Two Minutes in 1947 in "The Angle and The Badman" and again in what was Called The Triogy in the Late 1940s.

You are right about Banner and Ol Dollor. Banner was what we called a Bay Horse and Dollor looked like a Chessnut to me. The Bay Horse was a Dark Brown color, and a Chessnut was a Redish Lighter Color Brown and most of the time did not have the Darker colored Lower Legs.

Good Luck on Trying in Suing over a Dead Horse!!!

You might want to look at the Markings Again?

DUKE'S HORSES

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Originally posted by Dollor@Oct 24 2006, 09:57 PM

Thanks for the links, ejgreen, very interesting reading, especially Quirt's posts.

Everybody says that Dollor is in all the films after True grit, except for the mule in Cahill. I watched bits of them yesterday, and it is definitely Dollor in the Undefeated, Chisum and Rio Lobo - large blaze, almost bald face, white under the muzzle too, and three white legs, left front sorrel. Very long legs.
The horse in Big Jake and after looks different: narrower blaze, only two socks, in the hind legs and not so long legs. Ok, it may be have become sturdier when older and so the legs seem relatively shorter, but what about the markings? Is it masked in the same way in all the later films?

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I understand that all of you are John Wayne fans but after reading alot of your comments about Dollor I am amazed at the lack of knowledge. Mr. Wayne started riding Dollor In 1969 in True Grit after the horse name Bo was killed. Chisum 1970, Big Jake 1971, The Cowboy's 1972, The Train Robbers 1973, Cahill U S Marshall 1973, Rooster Cogburn 1975 and his final movie the Shootist in 1976.
The information that ChiliBill is advertising is not at all correct. The picture is not of Dollor but of Bo. Dollor was a chestnut 15 1/2 hands tall, he had two white hind stockings and a narrow white blaze. Bo was a sorrell, had three white stockings and a wide white blaze face. I am the Texas lady that owned Dollor for twelve years and hired a taxidermist to have him mounted. The information that was printed on Ebay was false and I am in the process of suing in court. The taxidermist did indeed ruin my horse. The taxidermist and his buddy known on ebay as Illegal Smile thought they could get by with what they had done. I just hope that Dollor can be fixed since I have had plans since 1991 to have him mounted and his final resting place to be Winterseet Ohio, John Wayne's birthplace.

Deb
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