There exists too the popular urban legend that a total of legs attached to the ground in occasionally equestrian statues is correlated to the manner where the rider died, however based on data from various historiographer, this is only myth. ([http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.htm])

Equestrian sculptures
Bronze equestrian of Marcus Aurelius, (second half of the 2nd century) 5 m. tall, situated at a Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome. These are the remarkably swell preserved bronze horseback rider. The Bronze Horseman, as this awful statue of Peter the Great on the Senate Square of St Petersburg is generally known, is the independent function of Etienne Maurice Falconet (1716-91). Bronze equestrian of Nicholas I of Russia in front of St Isaac's Cathedral is the only equestrian statue in the world with merely two support points (the rear feet of the horse). Impressionist bronze equestrian of Alexander III of Russia by Paolo Troubetzkoy, formerly before of the Moscow Railway Station, at present inside the court of the Marble Palace in St Petersburg. Bronze equestrian of Marshal of Finland C.G.E. Mannerheim, located beside the main street Mannerheimintie in Helsinki in front of the Kiasma museum of modern art. Gold-plated equestrian of General George Clinton on Connecticut Avenue in Washington, D. C. Equestrian of King George IV in Trafalgar Square, London, the United Kingdom Equestrian of Emperor Constantine in St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican City, Rome, Italy Equestrian of Godfrey of Bouillon on the Royal Square in Brussels, Belgium Equestrian of King Frederik V by Jacques-Francois-Joseph Saly in Amalienborg Place, Copenhagen, Denmark Bronze equestrian Apotheosis of Saint Louis in front of the Saint Louis Art Museum.