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4 comments:
I believe we decided a while back that this beast had been sold to Fliegenpilz, so is now with Probst. Unless I'm much mistaken, that's Alberto Althoff with him, about to ride voltige. The photo is not reversed. It's one of the few acts I've encountered in which the animal(s) entered the ring in the "wrong" direction.
John.
John,
I assumed it was the same rhino we had discussed. I just assumed the rhino had done a cut back/ring reverse. That's the great thing about a "standard." The end result it judged, and the great ones take it to an obvious higher level. The "circus standard" does what ever it wants, with a pretension of knowledge/skill and as long as the mates hang paper, you are great.
Wade
In seeing all of these great exotic acts I am so awhere that they do no have to spend all the time and worry in trying to teach them to not jump out of the ring. Kind of like the great aerial acts that work hooked to a lunge or with a net under them. T%he sky is the limit. I have envied them over the years.
Col.,
You shouldn't envy them, any more then I envy somebody who owned their act and could do what they wanted, how they wanted. I just accepted my higher level of skill. Most knocks at something are uniformed knocks. The knowledgeable should not fall into that. Things like training in a living round pen, training by a demanded script, or schooling one horse for 5 years or schooling 5 in one day are intangibles. Just like a home run record set in 100 game season or in a 125 game season. They at least have record books for addressing greatness, we have "friend" paper, and that is worth the price of a snowcone.
Wade
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