Horse Sense - Wendy & Johnny Crawford

Horse Sense
Horsin' around with Wendy & Johnny Crawford

Blueboy is the stage name for Mark's horse. Played most of the time by Bosco.


Mark on Bosco/Blueboy — Lucas on Razor 'The Angry Man'		Mark with Bosco/Blueboy 'Three-Legged Terror'

FaceBook conversations about this horse on 12/24/09

Johnny Crawford: This is Bosco as Blueboy. He was a wonderful guy, an old pro at the age of 7 when we first met. We were pals. He trusted me and I trusted him. If I was anxious, he was anxious. If I was bored, he was bored. We were a match made in Heaven. He moved like Fred Astaire, with about 6 gears including the most comfortable jog I've ever had the pleasure to experience.

Wendy: I saw Bosco twice today in 95 Face of Yesterday and 104 Clarence Bibs Story. The white on his left rear foot makes it easy to pick him out. It's hard to tell in black-and-white TV, but Bosco looks like a bay.


Lucas — Peanuts — Mark		Mark with Bosco/Blueboy

FaceBook conversations about this horse on 12/24/09 Johnny Crawford: This is neither Bosco or Peanuts, but it's very likely that Bosco is nearby. Wendy: So this is Peanuts? Where on earth is Blueboy? I just read Blueboy was played by Bosco. You had a whole herd!Johnny Crawford: Very early. Could be Peanuts. It ain't Bosco. Happy days at the Fox Ranch, now Malibu Creek State Park.
		Johnny Crawford: This is neither Bosco or Peanuts, but it's very likely that Bosco is nearby.


Johnny Crawford: Razor was a beautiful black thoroughbred from the race track. He was kinda high strung when Chuck got him, and pretty green to the movie business; But he liked Bosco, the veteran, and Razor got use to all the activity and gunfire pretty quick. Chuck made him look small, but he was all of 16 hands. They both made me look small, but I was.		Children's PLAYMATE Magazine 1959 GOING TO SCHOOL (frontier style) Johnny Crawford, who is Mark McCain in ABC's "The Rifleman" combines school with his acting. He uses a horse to carry him with his books to the studio classroom. How many PLAYMATE readers ride a horse to school? Do you?

Micah ridin' Blueboy
'Dark Day at North Fork'

Johnny was asked about his horse Two-Bits..... Johnny Crawford: I named him Two Bits after he arrived as a yearling from Missouri in 1960, a most wonderful gift from St. Louis breeder, Ben Kraus. I had never owned a horse before. I kept him in "horse country" at one of the boarding stables on Riverside Drive in Burbank. For the next three years I practically lived there, with him helping me do my homework and study my lines for The Rifleman. We learned a lot together. I lost him in 1982.

Robert Crawford: "As I recall, Johnny named him Two Bits because it was a "QUARTER" horse. Robert (John's Dad)"

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