Only with some effort could you produce a list of the top ten horses of all time and do worse than North by Northwestern has done. Pokey is a contender, maybe. But Mr. Ed for the top slot? Put peanut butter in my mouth and I'll talk, too. Three Kentucky thoroughbreds to represent the greatest horses of all time? It won't do. Here I give you the record corrected:
10. A horse with no name
9. Equus
8. Artax
7. The Horses of Helios (Pyrois, Eos, Aethon, and Phleyon)
6. The Fire Mares of Krull (watch at 5:17)
5. Sarah Jessica Parker.
. . . I'm kidding! Number five is Maurizio Cattelan's La Ballata di Trotsky.
4. The horse you rode in on
3. Shadowfax
2. Incitatus
1. Pegasus
The horses from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" should make the list.
And certainly number one should be Catherine the Great's horse.
Posted by: philip at April 2, 2008 11:58 AMNo Trojan Horse? You still have work to do, my friend. I also think at least one centaur should be included, if only to acknowledge their contributions as a group.
Good call on Shadowfax, though.
Posted by: Tom at April 2, 2008 12:31 PMSecretariat's juicing! The Trojan's a fake! DQs all around!
Posted by: Kriston at April 2, 2008 6:36 PMNo Sleipnir? Eight legs, and the thing has runes in its teeth!
Posted by: ben wolfson at April 4, 2008 12:24 AM
