Thursday, November 13, 2008

From Sue Lenz


Tiger & Horse, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Hi Buckles:

Just received this interesting newspaper picture from UK that was in the October 2. 2008 edition.

The text reads.
ROAR HIDE. A tiger is pictured riding a horse in a bizarre circus show in Xiamen in southeast China's Fujian province. The shows are being held during a week's holiday to mark China's National Day, the 59th anniversary of the founding of communist China.

Regards.
Sue.

Posted by Buckles at 11/13/2008 06:00:00 AM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

It almost looks like the tiger has the horse's ear in his mouth.
Don't we normally see a larger draft horse with a leather neck & head protection device being used for this type of act?

Let's hear from some of our tiger trainer experts on this one.

Jimmy Cole

13 November, 2008 07:21
Anonymous said...

Looks to me like the must have a lot of Horses lined up for this Act. You can see that the Horse is not to happy and the Tiger is trying to figure out on how to stop it from running.

13 November, 2008 14:16
Anonymous said...

I just talked to Josip Marcan who viewed this photo. He said it does not appear as though the tiger has the horse by the ear, but he added that the horse seems to be too small for this type of act. He said it is likely that the horse and tiger were raised together, but he had concerns about the "platform" on the horse vs. as thick pad. You can plainly see that the tiger has not been declawed.

13 November, 2008 17:33
Anonymous said...

In the 1960s the first time a Moscow Circus since the end of World War 2 came to Germany, starring Poppov the Clown and a act with 4 Lions to Horse. The had a lot of problems with this act and by the end of the tour there was only one Horse left because the Lions mauled three of the Horses so the act folded. The also did not have proper protection on the Horses

14 November, 2008 03:17

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