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Being unsure whether this thread belongs here or in Animal Safari Hi, ASp!, I take my cue from the recently-resurrected thread of similar title.
In my college days at an all-male school, a friend nicknamed his car, the trusty steed by which we traveled to the all-female schools for weekend gatherings. said last word was chosen with care. He named it after a famous literary steed, altering his choice from week to week according to mood: sometimes it was named for Don Juan's horse, sometimes for Don Quixote's.
Those names have long since faded from recall. Who then are the horses who supported our famous figures of literature and history?
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Don Quixote's horse was Rosinante, which was supposed to connote something like "broken-down fleabag" per Professor John Bullitt.
Didn't ever stop to think that Don Juan _had_ a horse. Though of course he must have.
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Perhaps, given his proclivities, he simply didn't need one. Most of his riding wasn't done outoors! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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CapK, am I gonna have to turn you in to the Gutter Police? Ah, on second thought, [sigh] they ain't any anymore... Jackie done upped and got herse'f corrupted. And it's all the Aussies' fault.
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I read somewhere that the name of Don Quixote's horse was a double jest. "Rosin" meant a low grade cart horse, and the "ante" meant "used to be". I never heard any mention of Don Giovanni having any special horse. I wonder if the Don Juan referred to could be Hispanic hero of the Southwest, Don Juan de Oņate, whose statue is to be three stories high, on his rearing Andalusian, "Helicon". Trust the Texans to do it on a grand scale.
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I'm not Aussie but I'll take a little of the credit for helping to corrupt the Gutter Police  [raising hand timidly-e] The wood nymph
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Fellow I work with has a vanity plate on his truck that reads ROSNANTE. NY state won't let him have enough letters to spell it out in its entirety.
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And it's all the Aussies' fault.
Hey, stop singing NZ's national anthem.I love it, Maxie! Ho ha, here we go again!
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Why not brainstorm the great horses' names?
Let's see: There's Bucephalus (sp?)--was that Alex the Great's steed?
Then the noble General Lee's Traveler (sp? again?)
Plath's Ariel...
Rogers' Trigger...
Christopher Robin's Eeyore--yeh, it's a donkey, but what the heh!
Black Beauty--but I don't know exactly who owned her all those times...
And what was the name of that most remarkable horse--a mare, I suppose--who ran one race of the Triple Crown with a broken leg and won it? I cannot remember her name...something tripping like "Pit-a-Pan" or "Tip-a-Can"? She had the best spirit of all.
And Flicka. Who owned her?
And my daughter's pony, an Arabian mare who was a flash of copper on cross country--Rosalar, the wild-hearted "Rosie" or "Rosasita." Had to include her on this list.
What other great horses or donkeys or, in general, long-legged fliers?
Oh, Pegasus. Can't forget Pegasus.
Best regards,
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