Buckles Blog: From Paul Gutheil #2

Friday, March 14, 2014

MARK OLIVER & "LIPPIZAN".

Dick Flint said...: Excellent form by the horse. Who might have trained the horse?; 14 March, 2014 15:47
Chic Silber said...: Probably Henry Shroer; 14 March, 2014 19:05
Chic Silber said...: But it also could have been Ian

Garden who did some offsite; 14 March, 2014 19:06
John Herriott said...: Come on chic are you forgetting GGW already.; 16 March, 2014 08:55
John Herriott said...: Note these two photos , this and a recent other by the great William Heyer. Heyer id doing it the old circus style, at liberty and Mark is doing it like Spainish Riding school. Before or after the war as well we had not heard enough from Europe about Lips, riding school, etc. and on circuses it was called a "buck jump" until we brcame more intercontinetal sophistivcated.; 16 March, 2014 09:01
Chic Silber said...: No Johnny I certainly remember

him very well with admiration

but I didn't drink the koolaid

To me he wasn't "The 1 & Only"

but an incredibly proficient &

very charming circus wonder who

became a circus legend

I consider many performers past

& present to be of equal status; 16 March, 2014 10:48

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