Just what is it?

I’m a tourist at heart so during a whistle stop visit to London on Monday, I got off the tube a couple of stops early at Charing Cross. Before wandering along the Thames riverbank to the office, I nipped over to Trafalgar Square to view the Hans Haacke’s artwork currently residing on the Fourth Plinth. The statue of a skeletal, riderless horse, adorned with ticker tape showing stock exchange prices was worth admiring, not least because it represents City excess and political austerity.   But secretly, I actually thought the installation looked more like a T Rex than a thoroughbred horse!