May Wirth

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May Wirth (6 June 1894 – 18 October 1978) was an Australian circus and vaudeville performer[1] famous for her ability to do somersaults forwards and backwards on a running horse. She was inducted to the Circus Hall of Fame as a bareback rider in 1963.[2]

Circus troops

Wirth performed with the Barnum and Bailey circus in the United States,[3][4] and was the star of Wirth's Circus in 1916[5] as the "greatest bareback riding star"[6]

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