Come On, Steve! was a very popular strip written and drawn by Roland Davies. His name was a tribute to famous racehorse jockey champion Steve Donoghue, the spectators would yell 'Come on, Steve'! and it became a nationally known expression. Mr. Davies was a consummate professional artist, he was a pioneer of British animation when he made a cartoon of Steve the carthorse in his kitchen, eventually producing 6 of them. The strip ran from 1932 to 1949. Steve is anthropomorphic because he is of human level intelligence and he can read. Clay statuette of Steve, possibly a production prototype. I had to copy and paste this, I could not enlarge it. For decades this was the only example of the strip I saw. Oh, well, in The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe Mr. and Mrs. Beaver eat ham - “Now, Mr Beaver, just reach down that ham. And here’s a packet of tea, and there’s sugar, and some matches". So a horse wanting a fur coat makes sense. English sens...