Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Hagenbeck Wallace HIPPODROME RACES (c.1933)

From Chris Berry:

Hippodrome Races (including roman riding, chariot races, even human footraces) were a part of many circus performances and aftershows in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, and although John Ringling North did away with them in the early 1940s, Cole Bros continued to feature hippodrome races in an aftershow as late as 1949. Although the races are now a thing of the past, this is a great litho promoting the feature on Hagenbeck Wallace in the early 1930s.

Posted by Buckles at 11/03/2010 05:59:00 AM

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Chariot races under a show pavilion date back to at least the 1850s, the hippodrome shows of Franconi and Welch.

03 November, 2010 09:39
Anonymous said...

They still continue in the form of chuck wagon races on modern day rodeo's were they are still very popular. Interesting that the rodeo producer's knew to keep them after they were dropped by its competition.
p.j.

03 November, 2010 11:30
Ole Whitey said...

There was a Canadian named Cliff Claggett who had both chariot and chuck wagon races. They played rodeos and the like and I had him at the Prison Rodeo in Huntsville in the late sixties. They would come out early in the show and race chuck wagons and then later they would come out and race chariots. Same drivers and same horses. I was up in Western Canada with Al Stencill in 1978 and someone told me Cliff had died. Very nice guy and really put on a swell show.

03 November, 2010 18:13
Buckles said...

Bobby Gibbs had a number of brothers I was trying to name them off to Parley Baer, There's Bobby, Bingo, Buck and Casey and Parley said,"Sounds like a dog act.
I once asked where one of them was and he said he was making the date at Huntsville Prison, I asked "Where's his next date?" and he replied "Huntsville Prison!"

03 November, 2010 20:00
Ole Whitey said...

You remember when Charlie and Shirley had a dog act named Jack, Queen, King and Ace?

I did know who trained them but I must have hit "delete."

03 November, 2010 22:21

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