For decades, Atlantic City’s Steel Pier featured High Diving Horses, a death-defying boardwalk stunt that featured the animals jumping from platforms as high as 40 feet into a water tank, straddled by ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - What happened in Atlantic City's past should stay in Atlantic City's past - especially if it involves high-diving horses. That was the decision made by Anthony Catanoso, owner of ...

From the Radio Times archive, we visit our interview about The Last Diving Horse in America: Rescuing Gamal and Other Animals – Lessons in Living and Loving. For decades, Atlantic City’s Steel Pier ...

For decades, tourists in Atlantic City would pay to see a rider and horse dive 40 feet through the air into a small pool. And now a New Jersey author has written about her personal journey with the ...

Theatre 68 is presenting the World Premiere of Diving Horses, an original full-length play written by Vinnie Nardiello. Produced by Artistic Director Ronnie Marmo (Criminal Minds, General Hospital, ...

If you watch Boardwalk Empire you are aware that the Atlantic City of yore was filled with some pretty bizarre attractions (exhibits displaying babies in incubators, Paz de la Huerta). Well, now one ...

PHILADELPHIA — Cynthia Branigan was a Beatles-crazy girl from Lawrenceville, N.J., when she watched a horse dive 40 feet into a pool on the ocean end of Atlantic City’s Steel Pier. It was the first ...

In 1923, 19-year-old Sonora Webster Carver answered an ad seeking an "Attractive young woman who can swim and dive; likes horses; desires to travel." The ad was placed by one William "Doc" Carver.