Pride of Hunt is not a Da Vinci

AN ancient stallion has turned out not to be the thoroughbred he was believed to be.

Forensic examination of a bronze statue in Limerick’s Hunt Museum has shown that a Leonardo da Vinci sculpture was cast hundreds of years after the great man’s death.

The Bronze Horse is a central part of the €60 million Hunt Museum collection handed over to the State by John and Gertrude Hunt.