The Year of the Horse

    Happy Chinese New Year, the year of the horse. The year of the wooden horse to be exact. To honor this wonderful creature, here are a list of some well-known horses and how we got to hear about them.

The Trojan horse      - Greek mythology

Silver                       - The Lone Ranger

Black Beauty           - Anna Sewell books

Meg                         - Robert Burns (Tam o'Shanter)

Bess                        - Dick Turpin (Famous
                                    English Highwayman)

Tornado                    - McCulley's (Zorro)

Rocinante                 - Cervantes's (Don Quixote)

Black Nell                - Wild Bill Hickok

The Black (Stallion)  - Walter Farley books

The Kelpie               - Celtic folklore

       HAPPY NEW YEAR!