Amigo: Circus Horse (Famous Horse Stories)

By: Page Cooper

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Synopsis: When Franz, fifteen-year-old son of the star rider in the circus, saw Amigo, a young palomino, he vowed that he would have that horse for his own and one day make him a great performer. So when Señor Gonzales, who owned Amigo, let Franz exercise him and teach him a few simple dressage steps, he was overjoyed. That was only the beginning, for Amigo was high-spirited, and you couldn't get near him with a saddle. But with the help of his friends, Mulk, the lion tamer's son, and Dizzy, the budding equestrienne from Argentina, Franz began to see his ambition realized. Around this warm story of devotion and friendship between boy and horse: is the exciting, colorful world of the circus, its people and animals. Meet Sadie the elephant, almost too old to perform any more, but not too old to start a stampede, and Mogul the panther, whose escape sent the circus into panic. And there is Madame Fawzia, the snake charmer, daughter of an old Indian medicine man, and the Locatellis, world's most daring aerialists. Here, amid the carnival music and the smell of hot dogs and cotton candy, is an inside look into the lifeblood of a circus: its human and animal performers.