Hi Buckles!
Read with interest the comments about the Courier of St Petersburg.
I certainly remember Henry Schroer doing the act and here is a photo taken out of the 1971 program.
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Friday, November 09, 2012
From Sue Lenz #1
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You can see the basketball hoop from The King Charles Troupe in the background. ~frank
Nice photo to show Henry doing the act. The Courier act, the Hungarian post, or by whatever one might know it involves additional horses entering the ring and coming from behind and then passing between the two horses ridden Roman style (a rider with one leg of two horses abreast). The rider then picks up the reigns to control the horse as it moves into the lead. Eventually the Roman rider commands a number of horses (say, 5-10) ahead of him. It is distinct from Roman riding or from simply entering the show with the horses already ahead of you. I believe it was rarely done in the US but, as Vincent noted, it is more common in Europe. Just a gorgeous and thrilling routine!
Dick Flint
Baltimore
In Germany we did the act with the rains and then when the act is finished you exit the ring with the horses in front of you and just jump of in front of the curtain to go back in to the ring to make your compliment. In the Ringling show this was not possible because the back door was to far away from center ring so we did the act the same way but without the rains. First you have one horse to come tru which does pirouettes and returns between the two horses and some other tricks and then this horse exits the ring and the the other 8 horses enter the ring. Same thing as the post the way we did it but without the rains.I will send a picture to Buckles with all the horses in the ring if you like.
Sounds great!
Send it on.
In our BAC production of Grandma Goes West, Katja Schumann performed the courier. She was spectacular!
For the 99th Edition Red Unit tour, Merle Evans used BEN-HUR CHARIOT RACE (originally written in 1894 by E.T. Paull) for this act.
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