Related Clues:

• Mythological man-horse
• Mythical half-man, half-horse
• Updike's eponymous character only half a man
• Bull's-eye almost secures gold for horseman
• Man with Arab connection, perhaps?
• Part of Roman army almost catching a mythical creature
• Half-man and half horse
• Mythological horse-man
• Sounds like middle of Updike's hybrid
• Fabulous horse-man
• Monstrous horseman
• Horseman given small coin (gold) right?
• Horseman of old
• Horseman, hearing of dispatched gold, started to run
• Group of Roman soldiers almost capturing a horseman, so to speak?