Horsin' Around With Bart Maverick!

Hi!

I found this great pic of Jack Kelly with "Goldie", the horse with the distinctive blaze that he often rode in Maverick. Bart Maverick, in desperate need of transportation, purchased Goldie from a passer-by in the Betrayal episode. Just a few episodes later, however, he gave Goldie to a young admirer in The Lass With the Poisonous Air.

However, Bart is seen riding the mare a few times after that, and she shows up again being currycombed by Edd "Kookie" Byrnes in Hadley's Hunters. I guess this is one pony that got around! (And, from what other viewers have noticed, "she" was actually a "he"...)

I also found this picture of Will Hutchins riding a horse with a similar blaze in Sugarfoot.

Sugarfoot was produced by Warner Brothers during the same era as Maverick, so I wondered if maybe this horse was "Goldie". It turns out that Hutchins rode the horse above (named "Sickle", presumably for its crooked blaze) for a while in Sugarfoot. Alas, according to Hutchins, Sickle wasn't the most cooperative cayuse at the studio. Here's the story. Sickle was replaced as Sugarfoot's mount by a horse named "Penny", so perhaps Sickle went on to play Goldie?
Could be! Anyway, here's a screen capture of Jack Kelly on Goldie/Sickle (center) from the Maverick episode "Duel at Sundown".