Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Casselly's Horses & Elephants (La Poste #4)


La Poste.4, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is such an impressive picture to see. Beautiful. I've never seen it here - is it difficult to break or just not worth hauling around more stock for 1 trick?? cc

Anonymous said...

I like the horse on the elephant. I told Rex that it would be a great blow off to his routine when he worked five elephants on horseback but he never got the time to get it done.

Raffaele De Ritis said...

Casselly is a German family. They have two small circuses but sometimes working in other shows. It is a very nice family. They train themselves the animals.

Anonymous said...

Johnny,

René Casselly (Kaselowsky)is German and his wife, Alexia is from Belgium. They have 2 children René Jr and Merry-Lu. They don't have their own show but own, train and present these Elephants and Horses. In MC they did 3 differents acts: liberty Horses, liberty Horses + Elephants and the Post (Alexia is standing on the Elephants back and the Horses run between the Elephants).They toured for several years with the Circus Arena in Denmark and will also work there in 2008. Benny Berdino, the owner of Arena received 3 Africans (Sarah, Junglar and Jenny) from the Circus Deros in Spain (Rossi Family) in 2007. He has build luxury surroundings for them at the Circus Arena Winter quarters.

Vincent Manero

Anonymous said...

Mr. De Ritis,
Get with Mr. Manero and agree/work out this show ownership deal. This "circus fact" is not quite ready for entry into the history books.
Wade Burck

24-HOUR-MAN said...

Alexia is also Guy Gossing's niece, her father also did a Tiger act.

Anonymous said...

Bill,
That's interesting. What was her father's name?
Wade Burck