caption species owner death_date birth_place image_size nationality birth_date gender image article_title name occupation
marocco and william bankes performing in an arena '' equus ferus caballus '' william bankes c. 1606 -lrb- about 20 -rrb- staffordshire , england 200px england england c. 1586 male maroccus extaticus.png marocco
 marocco performing horse
marocco

marocco -lrb- c. 1586 -- c. 1606 -rrb- , widely known as bankes 's horse -lrb- after his trainer william bankes -rrb- , was the name of a late 16th - and early 17th-century english performing horse .
he is sometimes referred to as the `` dancing horse '' , the `` thinking horse '' , or the `` politic horse '' .
