Buckles Blog: Parades of the Past #10

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Scan11878, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Moore's elephants. Smokey broke this. Hasn't been done since.
Paul

Elephants are "Asia" and "Dame"

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Dennis said...: Buckles - Is the driver doing anything?; 23 July, 2009 08:13
Buckles said...: Enlarge the picture and you will see that he is controlling the brakes.; 23 July, 2009 09:01
Anonymous said...: What makes a tandem elephant hitch so difficult to train? There were a number of them in circus history. Or is it just a matter of dedicating the time, effort and expense to do so, as with any "team"?; 24 July, 2009 09:19
Buckles said...: Elephants walk single file in a tandem hitch.
These two are hitched side by side, like a team of wheelers.
Nothing difficult about either except that only three or four people remain alive that remember how to hook it up.; 24 July, 2009 10:46
tangelefoot herriott said...: We did it in Mlwke before this photo. Note Jimmy Cole recent photo with my CWM elephants. By the bye, we, or Frankie did, made the entire parade start to finis. I understand this hitch of Moore-Jones had to drop out along the way after much PR build up. How about that?; 24 July, 2009 16:39
Richard Reynolds said...: The two bull hitch shown here struggled in the first part of the parade. Smokey told me he did not know what the matter was. He was afraid one of the bulls would suffer a rupture. He seemed genuinely perplexed, and he was a true veteran.

They stayed in the parade at least past the reviewing stand and Pfister Hotel but pulled out not long after.; 25 July, 2009 00:04

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