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Show CIRCUS HORSES SHOW HUMAN INTELLIGENCE ' Not all of the many sides of interest of a circus pilgrimage Is seen upon the bills. Could our readers but follow the magnificent horses all day as they go about the show ground they would be surprised by the revelation of horse sense. There are ta be counted with the Floto shows almost three hundred head of horses, and they are all beauties, "perfectly "per-fectly lovely. Each One f these horses can find the car In which It travels at. night and can find' its proper stalL In the moYnlng when the train Is unloaded it knows where to go and where to stand. It knows y hen jts cnge or den is ready to be taken to the ground; it si7es up the situation and where its load should be taken. The horse will find Its proper place In the big horse tents.' and when the parade, is ready -it v. knows where it should fall In. . These circus horses know as much about the t performance per-formance as do the people with the show. It has been claimed and. Is probably prob-ably true that the ting and performing horses know when they will be needed In the ring, that they can tell by the music of the band. ' The circus horses know when to pull and when to lay down: they know how to stand up in a moving car and they know how to hurry in case of a storm. They can do everything but talk. To select the kind of horses which have given the Great Floto Shows a national na-tional reputation for having the finest horses of any show on earth, much time. Intelligence, patience and perse-verence perse-verence was required. For the baggage and heavy work the Percheron type of draft horse was selected, and for his hippodrome races Mr. Floto chose thirty thir-ty clean-cut Kentucky thoroughbred, runners. Each year new stock is selected, select-ed, always from the same breeds, and those that have been scarred, blemished blem-ished or Injured are culled out. The mating up of the different teams is an object lesson to the' eye, uniformity uniform-ity of size, color and style always predominating. pre-dominating. When to the 300 head of beautiful black dapple gray and bay horses Is added the sixty-eight cute Shetland ponies. It is not strange that the lengthy street parade of the Floto shows is a most Imposing and pleasing sight. And capping the climax to all equine collections are the fourteen steeds of the Black Eagle Feather, the Ben Hur herd of Arabian stallions. When the great Floto shows exhibit here, citizens will not only find the circus cir-cus and menagerie exceedingly worthy of their patronage, but they Will find that the Floto horse stables compose a veritable horse fair and they should always al-ways be visited. The visitor should not ask what becomes of these horses if they become crippled, as they will be displeased with the answer, which is that they are fed to the animals. The big show comes May 25. at popular popu-lar prices. 25 cents for everybody. |