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Trick riders THE CELLULOID IMAGE OF THE COWBOY – an agile horseback rider galloping across a widescreen Western landscape – ripples across our collective consciousness. But it’s the art of trick riding that heightens this shared dream to something thrilling and tangible. Hollywood stuntman and horse master Tad Griffith defines it thus: “Horses running at breakneck speed while men or women perform impossible things on them.” It’s a gymnastic choreography of twists, swings, drags, stands, leaps and remounts that transform the airspace around a horse into a balletic playground. It looks dangerous, and it is: Tad’s mother and performing partner Connie was killed when her horse Winnie fell on her during a rodeo exhibition. She was 56, the age her only son is today. The heyday of competitive trick riding was the early to mid-20th century, and today it mostly survives as a ‘specialty act’ to entertain crowds at rodeos. But at their ranch in Agua Dulce, California, Tad and his sons – Gattlin, Callder, Arrden and Garrison – have retooled the sport into something beyond nostalgia. If you saw the Coen brothers’ 2016 film Hail, Caesar!, that’s Gattlin executing a shoulder stand and somersaulting dismount as actor Alden Ehrenreich’s stunt double. For the gunfight-onhorseback scene in John Wick: Chapter 3, Keanu Reeves spent weeks training in Agua Dulce, and Tad designed a rig that kept Reeves and the horses safe amid the mayhem. On YouTube, you can watch the four young Griffith brothers execute a jaw-dropping, high-velocity routine on America’s Got Talent. The Griffiths’ pedigree goes back to the dawn of professional rodeo and their Oklahoman great-grandparents Curley and Toots Griffith. Curley could wrestle a steer to the ground after leaping onto it from a speeding automobile, and the diminutive Toots was a daring Roman rider (standing atop two horses running side by side). Trick riding is a hybrid of the Wild West show and the acrobatics of Russian Cossacks. By the 1920s, the vogue for Stetson-wearing tricksters was peaking when Curley and Toots’ son Dick became a champion at the age of nine. He remained a force in rodeo until his retirement in 1954. A few years later, Dick married his star pupil, Connie Rosenberger, and became her manager. Their son arrived in 1962 and turned pro aged five. Under his father’s tutelage, Tad became a master trick-rider, rodeo champion, and half of a mother-and-son act that performed for three decades. STUNT CENTRAL Rolling up the driveway of the Griffith compound, you enter a wonderland of corrals and paddocks. There’s a big rig, motorboat, dirt bikes and stunt cars, the skeleton of a tepee, and an Old West Below: Arrden, 16, star of stunts and sitcoms. Right: Callder, 18, finds time for a selfie while nailing a hippodrome stand 42 THE RED BULLETIN
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