Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1895 — The Acrobatic Horse. [ARTICLE]

The Acrobatic Horse.

At Highland Falls, N. Y., Mr. Smith Mandigo owns several fine trotters. He harnessed one to a sulky the other morning and drove to Stephens’s Hotel. He left the trotter in charge of a boy, and was being shaved, when piercing screams were heard. The men rushed out and were horrified to see the horse standing on his head, while the sulky, containing the boy, was poised high in the air. The lad clung to the rig, but dared not move. While Mandigo and the barber were debating what to do, the horse turned a complete somersault, and the boy was thrown into the branches of a pine tree. He escaped with a few scratches. The sulky suffered badly, but the horse seemed all right. Mandigo cannot account for the horse’s strange action. The animal may have a desire to go with a circus company, and so stood on his head to show off, not caring what became of the boy or sulky.