Prince Monolulu - What a great story! 'I Gotta Horse'
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Prince Monolulu - What a great story! 'I Gotta Horse'
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"I gotta horse, I gotta horse to beat the favourite..."
The booming unforgettable catchphrase of Ras Prince Monolulu. A maverick tipster, he was one of the first black people to appear on British television and became an international celebrity.
Lion tamer, fire eater, street dentist, preacher, tribal chief, boxer, prisoner of war, entertainer. A CV like no other.
This remarkable figure arrived in England at the turn of the 20th Century claiming to be from Ethiopia, and died in London in 1965, at the age of 84.
But what is fact and what fiction? How is he viewed decades after the end of his extraordinary life? And did he really suffer death by chocolate?
As we will discover, all was not quite as it seemed.
What a great story - Read the full article here: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/54695641
The booming unforgettable catchphrase of Ras Prince Monolulu. A maverick tipster, he was one of the first black people to appear on British television and became an international celebrity.
Lion tamer, fire eater, street dentist, preacher, tribal chief, boxer, prisoner of war, entertainer. A CV like no other.
This remarkable figure arrived in England at the turn of the 20th Century claiming to be from Ethiopia, and died in London in 1965, at the age of 84.
But what is fact and what fiction? How is he viewed decades after the end of his extraordinary life? And did he really suffer death by chocolate?
As we will discover, all was not quite as it seemed.
What a great story - Read the full article here: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/54695641
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