Word: barebacking
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...addition to the regular open and closed horsemanship events, the committee is planning a game program, including musical chairs, egg and spoon, and possibly bareback riding...
...greatest shows, with a smash Hooperating (67.2). There were a few missing ingredients (the color and smells), but the long-distance lens caught such unusual details as a close-up of Unus' one-fingered stand, the dazed expression on a midget bareback rider's face, an elephant's wink...
Fantasy & Insight. Handsome, bush-bearded Scot Macdonald was born in 1824 of a line of Aberdeenshire Calvinists. His father, a hard-tender, humorous man, reared his son with Presbyterian rigor-forbidding him to use a saddle until he had mastered riding bareback, advising him "to give over the fruitless game of poetry," exacting his promise to renounce tobacco at the age of 23. After graduating from King's College at Aberdeen, George was "called" in 1850 to become minister of a dissenting chapel. But within two years, his deacons were grumbling that he had expressed belief in a future...
...exiling in Brazil, made a rare public appearance to goggle at royalty. The high-styled Braganzas, descendants of Brazil's second and last Emperor Dom Pedro II, were staging a circus. Dom João tamed lions, Princess Tereza played an Amazon, a couple of other princesses rode bareback. (The Brazilian Air Minister's nephew tried riding an elephant, but fell off and sprained his elbow.) Dom Pedro Henrique, the Pretender himself, boycotted the show: he was squabbling with the family over money matters...
...main character is a celebrated man who, betrayed by his wife and best friend, masochistically underscores his humiliation by becoming a circus clown named Funny. Most of the others in the circus, he soon learns, are unhappy too. Funny (Dennis King) falls in love with a charming, childlike little bareback rider whose depraved nobleman of a "father" is on the point of marrying her off to a rich, lecherous baron. When he finds he cannot stop the marriage, Funny, with considerable fanfare, poisons himself and the girl...