Monday, March 19, 2007

Gilbert Houcke #1

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Who is Gilbert?

Anonymous said...

Richard Reynolds says - - -

Dominic Jando rates Gilbert Houcke (born 1918)as the greatest tiger trainer of all time. And Jando is a knowledgeable critic of circus acts.

Gilbert is (or was) the uncle of Sacha and granduncle of Sarah and Karin of recent RBBB stardom.

Anonymous said...

From the grooms I learned that Gilbert Houcke, Sascha Houcke Sr.,and Votjek Trubka were there to advise Louis Knie when he trained his big tiger act that was eventually bought by Tarzan Zerbini
Gilbert Houcke is one of the biggest names in European tiger training.

Anonymous said...

Gilbert Houcke is the trainer that started tiger acts with no props more like a liberty. In the end 40 50 he was the firth to work as tarzan