Rebekkah Brookes Plus Ten More Clever Horses

As a result of the enquiry into the News of the World phone hacking scandal it has emerged that in 2008, the Metropolitan Police gave News of the World editor, Rebekkah Brookes, a horse on loan. Here are ten other lucky or not so lucky horses:

1.  Incitatus - Caligula's horse, treated like a Prince during his lifetime and venerated as a God after his death
2.  Comet - Supergirl's pet horse who as boyfriend Bill Starr, dated both Supergirl and Lois Lane
3.  Trigger - a horse who could walk 50 paces on his hind legs
4.  Shergar - kidnapped in 1983 by masked gunmen, but never found
5.  Lucius - an ass turned into human form then initiated into the cult of Isis
6.  Clever Hans - a horse who could count and tell the time
7.  Kerry - a horse that saved it's owner from an enraged cow
8.  Tonk - a horse praised for saving a boy from a grizzly bear
9.  A solid gold rocking horse - purchased for £400,000 by Beyonce and Jay-Z for their baby, Blue Ivy Carter.
10.  Quick Draw McGraw (aka El Kabong) - a guitar playing horse famous for hitting his opponents on the head with a Spanish guitar, while shouting Kabonga.

El Kabong enjoyed hard hitting guitar music  His guitar was a Cuatro, a 4 stringed instrument tuned like a ukelele. It was an instrument used in a versatile fashion unique to him, so it's horses for courses, I guess!