Flying horse

I wonder what his name is? Something exotic and mysterious I think, Kakhaberi maybe or Hamazasb… or Bahandur? At night he leaves the carousel and with his friends he leaps to the skies and flies free among the clouds. he is not the fastest, he is not the strongest, but he is the most courageous! His shoes are shod in gold, his armour is lapis lazuli, studded with garnets amethysts, topaz and tourmalines  His mane is dyed with woad and plaited with fibres of gold, his saddle is burnished copper.

Did he once lose a shoe? Did a gold nail catch against the canopy of the carousel as he flew into the night, did the shoe work loose and fall to earth, for some innocent child to pick up as a pretty thing? Who knows!