Thursday, July 08, 2010

1970 RBBB Blue Unit #12


Ringling 100-4, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.


(TO BE CONTINUED)

8 comments:

Frank Ferrante said...

The Riding Saxons (The multi-talented Stephenson family, again.) ~frank

Dick Flint said...

Is this Peter Haupner? Or is it the Stephenson act?
Dick Flint
Baltimore

Jack Ryan said...

No, Frank.

This is The Antals, from Hungary, who took center ring in this display. Flo and Billy Stephenson worked the same display in ring one.

Dick Flint said...

Then this is probably Peter Haupner as I believe he was from Hungary. He defected and was later with the Hanneford riding act in the mid-1970s.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

Frank Ferrante said...

It was only 6AM here in Phoenix when I opened the blog... I stand corrected again! Thinking it was Billy and Diana. I'm much better after lunch! ~frank I bow to my elders. :-)

Dick Flint said...

Careful on that "elders" stuff!!
Dick Flint
Baltimore

Jack Ryan said...

Elders????? Watch it, Frank. You're not exactly eligible for the Sailor Circus anymore yourself! :)

This is, indeed, Peter Hauptner. (I could not think of his name until Dick mentioned it.) As Dick says, Peter later defected and was with the Hanneford riding act for a time. I recall him as a really fine riding equestrian and a nice guy.

Not sure why the act was billed as the Antals. But that's what the Program of Displays says. (And I would never question the program book writer's veracity. I know him very well.)

We would often make up act names if their real name was difficult to pronounce or, even more commonly, when the act was doubling.

Jack

Chic Silber said...

Doubling Tripling Quadrupling

just change the feathers & put

them in another ring & no one

will ever know the difference