Tuesday, October 23, 2018

LOU #10


Posted by Chic Silber at 10/23/2018 12:34:00 AM

3 comments:

Chic Silber said...


This clown walk bought time

for props to slough the arena

23 October, 2018 01:06
Roger Smith said...

I remember Trevor Bale working in this cage. I was told it was designed by Art Concello, who hated cat acts for the handling involved. His muttered attitude was, "OK, they've seen the cats. Now get 'em out." This arena was only 10 feet tall, when the real thing is 12 feet tall for a reason known to old-timers. Art connected two sections which formed a bible. Opened, these could stand alone until further connected around the ring. When I saw this cage work, it sat well within the 40-foot curb, and an RB vet I knew as a Waco TX native, William Schevy, told me it was a 28-foot cage. A cage that size is what trainers call a "breaking cage", and is very tight for a full act to work in. Schevy told me that is all Art wanted, and that was that.

Someone may correct me on the name of the midget clown here--Manuel Padilla?

23 October, 2018 19:31
Roger Smith said...

In re the midget clown: Faded memory tells me he was known as Cha-Cha, with his last name possibly Morales.

24 October, 2018 19:48

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