Last updated on .From the section Horse RacingBorn in 1881, Monolulu - real name Peter Carl McKay - arrived in Britain at the turn of the 20th century"I gotta horse, I gotta horse to beat the favourite..."The booming unforgettable catchphrase of Ras Prince Monolulu. Thanks to painstaking research from retired policeman John Pearson, the truth about Monolulu's life has taken shape. "A black man here in those days had to work twice as hard to make his presence felt in society and Monolulu somehow got right on top of it all." "To me as a black man, a performer, an entertainer, his story is a part of mine," reflects the comic. Monolulu's autobiography 'I Gotta Horse', published in 1950 and now out of print, details many of the myths he created.

Source: BBC October 30, 2020 06:11 UTC