The Story of Carasels

The story of carasels actually starts back in the twelfth century with a game played by turkish and arabian horsemen. Participants needed to practise for their matches, so a training mechanism was developed that had wooden horses mounted on arms suspended from big poles or chains. There would often be a hand crank or a pull rope that created the movement. By the late 17 hundred, carocels were being not for sports training, but for entertainment. They appeared at european festivals and fairs pretty consistently. But because they were powered either by man or animal, they had to stay pretty much on the small side. These early merrigarounds had horses that weren't