Hector’s horse.
“There is a thousand Hectors in the field;
Now here he fights on Galathë his horse,
And there lacks work.”
Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, v. 5.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.