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Wild hearts can't be broken setting9/20/2023 ![]() The steel pier was the center attraction of Atlantic City. I feel the diving horse act is and always will be the great memory of Atlantic City. Whether or not visitors will view diving horses as wholesome entertainment remains to be seen. The renovation of the Steel Pier is working in conjunction with Atlantic City’s Tourism District plan to rebrand the notorious gambling town as a more diverse vacation destination. “It certainly can’t be safe for the animal.” “I think it’s disgusting and I think it’s cruelty to animals,” said Beall. Nancy Beall, president of the Atlantic County SPCA, thoroughly disagrees. “Nobody can show us any documentation that the diving horse act here on Steel Pier ever harmed an animal, ever produced any kind of cruelty or abuse. In an interview with a Philadelphia NBC affiliate, Steel Pier President Anthony Catanoso rejected claims of animal cruelty. ![]() A short-lived attempt to bring the show back in the early 1990s-not long after Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken was released-failed due to outcry from animal welfare organizations and concerned citizens. The diving horses were a part of the Steel Pier from the 1920s through the 1970s. ![]() In other versions of the act, the horse dives solo. ![]() In some versions of the act, a rider climbs on to the horse at the top of the tower and rides the horse as it plummets into the 12-foot pool below. In the diving horse show, a horse jumps off of a tower that is approximately 40 feet high. ![]()
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