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Third visit, so here’s another piece of the River Horse story. Mary Caperton Bingham privately commissioned the sculpture from Barney Bright and gave it to the city. Bright started with a small sketch, then scaled it into the roughly 21-foot bronze fountain. His retrospective says he was working in the tradition of the monumental horse fountains found in European capitals. Louisville’s version just happened to come with wings and a fish tail.