George W. Stubbs has a legacy of anatomical horse studies, as a result of dissecting a number of dead horses in his studios, in order to paint them with previously unseen realism. Is it true he was so strong he could carry a horse corpse up these flights of stairs?
A horse weighs 1,000 to 1,200 lbs. I have not heard this about Stubbs before, but I can not imagine moving a dead horse 3 feet let alone up a flight of stairs. Even a small pony is 600 lbs, and would be near impossible to move by a single human.