I always say that Fabian was my first crush, but I actually did have a crush before Fabian. I loved Dale Robertson’s horse Jubilee almost as much as I loved Dale himself. That was in the early 60s when he was in 'Tales of Wells Fargo'.
I met him once, in the early 80s at a horse auction at the Williamson ranch in Iowa Park, TX (home of Yellow Mount). He was surrounded by a crowd of people, and was wearing a black cowboy hat. I just stood on the edge of the crowd for a while, just listening to that voice. It was really him, Dale Robertson! He turned towards me and I told him, "I just wanted to tell you how much I loved Jubilee, and how beautiful he was in all his silver". Dale gave me a big smile and said "Thank you for remembering him, I loved him too".
I was just as flustered as I would have been 20 years before.
Then in August 2012, I went to the Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association auction at Emerald Downs near Seattle. I was talking to some of the employees and was talking about the auction at the Williamson's years before. When I mentioned Dale Robertson. they told me been at the WTBOA auction the year before, and was supposed to there that day, but he was sick and couldn‘t go. That was only about 6 months before he died.