The poets will no doubt remember how the Greek hero Bellerophon rode the majestic Pegasus to his epic battle against the monstrous chimaera in the song of the ancients. While not all of Poseidon's equidea offspring could dance the sky, horses have always captured the imagination of men the world over.
Perhaps the most famous admirer of thoroughbreds is the late Queen Elizabeth II whose love for horses is as well known as her affection to her dogs.
It is then no surprise that one of her oldest friendships in South Africa would so happen to start incidentally around a horse.
The year is 1947. Princess Elizabeth along with her sister Princess Margaret are accompanying their father King George VI and mother Queen Elizabeth, as they crisscross the then Union of South Africa during a royal visit of the Commonwealth.
King George VI and the two princesses in the Drakensberg
The royal train - resplended in white and flanked with a thousand mini union jacks - makes, what in the grander scheme...
