Diving horses

"Diving Horse" - one of the most unique and memorable performances, which can be seen on Navy Pier Steel Pier in Atlantic City. With vosemnadtsatimetrovoy towers (later it was reduced to a height of 12 meters) dived into the pool and horse rider. This number was coined in the mid-1880s William Frank Carver, the famous shooter and companion known showman Buffalo Bill Cody and lasted until 1978, when animal advocates have his ban.





The photo allegedly shows Sonora Carver, the famous pole vaulter, who in 1924, attracted by the opportunity to become famous and to travel with the troupe in the country, takes a job to William Carver. Seven years later, the horse stumbles and Sonora with a nasty fall in the water leads to the fact that because of the outbreak of retinal detachment becomes a blind girl. However, such a terrible blow of fate could not break Sonora Carver and she continued her speech before the Second World War. In 1961, she will write an autobiographical novel "The girl and the five brave horse» / ​​«A Girl and Five Brave Horses,» on which in 1991 the Disney studio will shoot a film "Wild at Heart never surrender» / «Wild Hearts Can» t Be Broken < br />


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