Seeking new challenges, he performed with the Barnum & Bailey Circus for several years racing against a horse, and losing only a half dozen times.

The front door's transom was taken out so that a stuffed elephant from the Barnum & Bailey Circus could be brought in.

By 1904, the act had performed with the Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Sacrificing half its mass, it became a juggling dwarf with the Barnum & Bailey Circus, making contacts in the freak world.

Farrell also performed with the Barnum & Bailey Circus racing against a horse and never lost to the horse.

Oakley returned to the Barnum & Bailey Circus for four seasons (1903-07), where he reportedly earned up to $1,000 a week.

The boy on the huge bike reminded her of a monkey she had once seen riding a unicycle in the Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Then there is the fact that the Barnum & Bailey Circus once kept its elephants in the alley, which might account for the earthy smell.

The Ringlings purchased the Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1907 and ran the circuses separately until 1919.

Haley worked for the Bailey Circus, of Sarasota, Florida, from 1946 to 1948.