Bucephalus (King's Horse)

Bucephalus (1982-2008) was the prizewinning black stallion of King Arthur III of Lovia. It was a fierce animal, magnificantlty build with a skin so dark it was almost blue, standing as high as 17 hands and weighing as much as 1400lbs. The animal was named after the horse of Alexander the Great, the famous Macedonian warrior-king. The horse won many races, and carried the old Lovian monarch wherever he went. When the king left the palace to live in his country house, the King's Royal Stable, he took Bucephalus along with him and rode the horse twice a week trough woods and along lakes to go fishing. He would ride slowly, as the both the animal and his rider had aged by then.

In 2006 the King fell from his horse and broke his hip; the horse got scared after seeing a fox who suddenly jumped in frond of him. The king died several months later, and apparantly Bucephalus mourned the death of his master. The horse died four months after his masters death, reportedly from a broken heart. On his gravestone is carved a poem on the horse which the king wrote on him in 1996.