W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Library Videos
John Milton, you need to make a fresh pot of coffee, sit down and take a deep seat and watch some of the incredible movies of the Kellogg Sunday Horse Shows and Kellogg Ranch History on the link above. Click it and when you get to the movie list go down to historical horses Kellogg Dream 1983 and click on DSL/Cable. When finished go down to W.K Kellogg/Cal Poly Pomona and do the same deal. You should be able to get around to the other titles after that(go down to The Real Pearls, it looks like Saddam Hussein was a horse trainer before he became a Dictator LOL)
I know your horses with the numbers on their hips could count and get in the right place, but I think these horse's from the ranch with the letters on their hips are smarter, because they can spell Kellogg. Who is the "circus trainer", Mark Smith that is mentioned? Enjoy, old hoss.
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Mark Smith was a noted American circus horse trainer most especially from the Al. G, Barnes Circus and got the creme de plum job with Kellogg Arabian Ranch. The Barnes circus under Barnes ownership always kept a large number of qualified trainers both wild and domestic because of the increditable amount of animal acts in the show. The Motto was, "Every act an animal. Every animal an actor" They had all types of liberty [zebras], excellent High School, trick horses, ponies mules, etc. Barnes was an excellent trainer in his own right.[there are nice photos of the handsome Barnes riding in his show on tghe fine thorobred mare,Full Dress]. Barnes started out with animal exhibitions with his brother[their name was Stonehouse] and his brother was predominent with Seals,etc. Another early person with him was famous Equestrian Director Robert Thornton who was excellent horse trainer and it was said that he could work any act on the show, wild or domestic. The principal cat trainer over the years was the great Louis Roth. He was responsible for the career of Mabel Stark [previously a nurse and at one time married to Roth], Martha Florine and others, Capt. Ricardo and so on. Ringling bought Barnes and kept it on the road until final season 38. They added acrobats, aerialists, but still kept animal tradition alive with Terrell Jacobs. Bert Nelson, Mabel Stark.Johnny
More on Smith. He had private training stable in Valley in L.A. later and trained the fine bareback horse in the film Toby Tyler. I met him in those years and he was a boistrous big fellow bragget but a great horse trainer. The Al. G. Barnes circus advertised "FORTY DANCING GIRLS AND FORTY DANCING HORSES" In those days we never heard of Dressage\, but we had excellent High School and Menage-specialty horses. Most trainers were American but in 1924 American Circus Coro. brought from Germany 72 yr. old Ernst Schumann and for two years trained great liberty and high school and took bareback rider Rudy Rudynoff and he became a great circus horse trainer. In Peru, Indiana ring barn Schumann had windows whitewashed and only allowed Rudynoff, his wife Erna and a cowboy named Ed Davis to be in the ring barn with him.He did not like America and rteturned to Europe where he immediately trained great horse acts. Johnny
Col. John Milton Tanglefoot Old Soldier Herriott,
Wow, thank you John. That's what I am talking about, incredible history relived.
Leave it to you to add your fabulous touch of "Herriottism" by adapting the time honored "creme de la creme" into "creme de plum job." LOL
"Schumann's whitewashed windows" recollection was also great. That's something us American's have seen often from Europeans over the years, isn't it Col. I gotta wonder why it took to Ed Davis. Was Ed just a suck up or a pretty good hand to assist? Do you know anything about any thing that Ed Davis did later on?
Regards,
Wade
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