Horace Horsecollar star of the cartoon. In his earliest incarnation, Horace was presented as Mickey Mouse's four-legged plow horse. He could walk upright on his hind legs, at which time his forelegs became gloved hands; at other times, he got back down on all fours and reverted to form. Horace mostly played bit-parts in the 30+ films in which he appeared. Like Goofy in his early "Dippy Dawg" appearances, Horace's body seemed to be formed of rubber tubing. He and Clarabelle Cow had an uncanny ability to change from somewhat normal farmyard animals into anthropomorphized beings as necessary. After departing the Disney
Dippy (Pittsburgh) he visited at Carnegie's Skibo Castle in Scotland, asked for a plaster cast to be displayed in London. Soon Kaiser Wilhelm II and other European heads of state asked for copies. Even 100 years later copies of Dippy are displayed in the Natural History Museum in London, the Natural Science Museum in Madrid, the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. "Dippy" the sculpture was created during a nine-month process from the original fossil, which still stands indoors in the museum's Dinosaur Hall. In addition to its service as a mascot for the museum,