Alberta trick rider extraordinaire Sally Bishop has agreed to do 32 performances at the California State Fair and Exposition’s Cavalcade of Horses, an evening performance filled with equestrian acts. The show takes place in August in Sacramento, California.
Bishop was profiled in the April 2005 issue of Horses All when she was on tour with Cavalia, Cirque du Soleil’s grand scale celebration of the horse while it toured North America.
Bishop is a third-generation performer who performs trick riding, a bull whip act, and the spectacular four-up roman riding – a feat rarely seen in North America.
Of her upcoming performances with Cavalcade of Horses, Bishop says, “I will be trick riding, roman riding on my four-up, as well as performing my new liberty dressage act, in which I ride my Paint horse, Tangier, through several high school tricks, ending with a pretty special finale where he pivots 360 degrees on his hind legs.”
Bishop is also a former coach of the Red Rodeo Cowboy Girls, a talented all-girl trick riding troupe out of Okotoks, AB, where the youngest member is seven years old.
In fact, Toronto’s Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) from August 17 to September 3 will see the return of the Red Rodeo Cowboy Girls. Tom Bishop’s Wild West Show (yes, that’s Sally’s dad) is back by popular demand at the CNE, having performed to standing-room-only crowds in 2005, and he’s, once again, asked the Red Rodeo Cowboy Girls to accompany him.
For more information on Sally Bishop, please visit www.sure shotentertainment.com.
