His original group of three elephants, Boney (pronounced Bonnie), Molly and Waddy, toured Great Britain's music hall scene, as well as Europe, and is reported to have appeared "500 times" at Proctor's Pleasure Palace in New York City in 1895.
Lockhart and his brother Sam worked together on their parents' circus, and then toured Europe as bareback riders, clowns and acrobats.
The act toured most of the British music hall scene, including performances in front of Queen Victoria and the royal family.
According to reports from George Claude Lockhart, the elephants stampeded and caused considerable damage at venues in Hackney, Woolwich and Chesterfield among others.
[2][3] George Claude Lockhart, the son, went on to become what the "World's Fair" newspaper called "The Doyen of Ringmasters".
Sauce was later sold to Harry Coady for his circus, and finally to Billy Butlin, where she died at his Skegness holiday camp in 1960.
It also has a lot of new material on the Lockhart family[5] The book was launched at the Circus Friends Association Annual General Meeting[6]