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STARS OF STAGE AND SCREEN

If you have ever had an urge to run away to join the circus, this article is for you.

Since the mid-1930s, for reasons I’ll explain later, there has been an anti-circus bias, especially in dressage circles—this despite the fact that the circus is one of the great repositories of knowledge concerning how to train for the High School.

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