Hugo Schmitt #2

SAVE1060, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. With "Hard Tines" Leonard's show in 1956 with his son Roman and "Targa". Mac MacDonald told me that this elephant was included in the delivery of the Besalou Elephants in 1952 but that she was so small he refused her and she wound up at Catskill Game Farm where Hugo bought her four years later. Hugo once told me that "Targa" means "star" in India. Leaving the Ringling Show prior to the 1956 season turned out to be like Mugivan and Bowers selling their American Circus Corporation to John Ringling in 1929 just weeks before the Stock Market Crash.