There won't be any Russian riders getting on those specialty circus horses out at Sam Houston Race Park tonight.In town for several days and parked under expansive white tents, the show Artania got called off for tonight just a few minutes ago when the day's dark and gloomy skies opened up, accompanied by a tornado alert.But never fear.John Finlay, president of FMA Consultants who has been helping the Russian troupe while they're in town, says any Friday tickets will be good throughout the week
The Kantemirov family calls its famous Russian circus, which has toured all over the world for the last 62 years, a "celebration of life and of man's love for horses, demonstrating the harmony between mankind and nature."So when the troupe needed a city to host its first show in the United States, Houston seemed the obvious choice. "We think that Texas is horse country. One of the world's capitals," Mairbek Kantemirov, the show's producer, tells Hair Balls. "Because of rodeo and other things, th
Photo courtesy ArtaniaArtania, a Russian horse-show, has certainly had its ups and downs in Texas.Their first shows in April, at Sam Houston Race Park, ran into the kind of severe weather we have here every spring.Then, as we reported back in April, the trick-riding show, which got extravagant praise in Europe, opened and....not many people came.They tried to reboot their publicity: "I think they were used to these gushing articles being written in every city they went to and they didn't get tha
