Why are Circus Rings All the Same Size?
A circus is a circular arena of fourteen tarda nine inches in diameter, surrounded _ y benches. Go through urn country ;md it is the same—Australia, Amerioa, linglunii Europe and even Asia. Why ? The unvarying dimension! of the arena respond to ft double necessity: the exigency of the nwn and the exigency of the animal. The performer is instinctively nomad, both through disposition and interest. It is therefore most important that, although he continually changes his locality, he should find the scene of his performance unvaried. This 'rule is extremely convenient for uien, hut it is indispensable for animals. A performing horse must find, in whatever spot imppears before the public, a ring of fourteen yards nine inches, sanded to a depth of tliree'inches and a quarter, surrounded by a palisade opening in two places only, and low enough to enable it to walk round it with the fore hoofs on the red cushion and the hind legs in tba arena.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8055, 23 February 1906, Page 4
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168Why are Circus Rings All the Same Size? Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8055, 23 February 1906, Page 4
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