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This week on I PROMISE I AM NOT CRAZY, we’re meeting the horses who carried kings, emperors and commanders into history — horses who survived battles, inspired monuments, had cities named after them, and, in at least one case, caused an extremely powerful man to react to a horse-napping with the completely reasonable response of threatening everybody involved.
From Bucephalus to Copenhagen, these weren’t just horses standing conveniently next to famous men in paintings.
They have stories of their own.