Buckles Blog: Erica Loyal and "Yasso" (RBBB)

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

This is more to my liking, I've trained a number of elephants to do a leg carry but this one is puzzling. How does she get into this trick?

GaryHill said...: Looks like a Butt carry?; 26 July, 2006 08:19
Anonymous said...: Maybe she did an arabesque on a tub or ring curb, elephant approached from the side, and clasped the raised leg? But how did she get OUT of the trick? Maybe she bent at the waist, grabbed her trunk and rolled to the ground like that? Anybody know what relation Erica Loyal was to Alfonso Loyal and his daughter Lucy?; 26 July, 2006 18:00
Buckles said...: You're probably right, that's the way we always did it but in reverse.
Coming out of the trick is the easy part, just tell the elephant "All Right!".
Yes, Erica was part of the Loyal Repensky family of bareback riders and I assume a sister to Alfonso and Guistino.; 26 July, 2006 18:14
Anonymous said...: Yasso was a really famous circus elephant around 1930,
I think she was a Royal elephant.
A kunkah,(an elephant used to capture wild elephants)
She had a straight back unlike other Asian elephants.
Whatever happened to her original trainer Gunga?
I believe he was a mahout from India.
Some say he got homesick and left
others say he was killed by Yasso?; 01 August, 2006 18:26
Anonymous said...: Yasso's orginal mahout with the Ringling Bros. show in the 1920's was a Hindu named
Aypee Vidani.; 05 August, 2006 18:09

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