Throughout its very long history with humans, the horse has been made famous in various ways.

Roman Emperor Caligula, who is remembered in history for his eccentricities, putting it mildly, appointed his favourite horse as a Consul of Rome. English King Richard III, who was considered a villain by character and deformed by nature, is said to have cried that he lost an important battle because the horse he was riding had lost one shoe, toppling the rider, making the monarch lament loudly: “ A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse”. This, of course, according to the Bard, William Shakespeare.

The recent three-legged bronze equestrian statue erected on a plinth at the entrance to Valletta may eventually get a particular mention in history. That remains to be recorded. A similar deficiency exists in the statue of Queen Boudica, standing on one side of the House of Commons in London sculpted on a chariot driven by horses without reins in her hands.

Definitely our horse cannot canter or gallop away.

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