GERHARD BURGER skryf na aanleiding van Willie Buys se vraag “Hoekom is hy Horse”?: Harry het moontlik sy bynaam gekry van 'n karakter in Damon Runyon se boeke. Miskien het die welbelese Willie Roux iets daarmee te doen gehad; of Phil Zaayman, wat ook 'n aanhanger van Runyon was.Harry en Willie en Wessel O en 'n paar ander manne is destyds dikwels
saam op plekke in en om Johannesburg gesien, soms in die geselskap van Johan Wessels, Ferdi Hand en Jaap Swanepoel. Hulle was nogal bedrywig. Willie en Harry het Alfas gery.
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| Harry Lombaard |
Uit een van hulle:
One evening along seven o'clock I am sitting in Mindy's restaurant putting on the gefilte fish ... when in comes three parties from Brooklyn wearing caps as follows: Harry the Horse, Little Isadore and Spanish John.
Now these parties are not such parties as I will care to have much truck with, because I often hear rumors about them that are very discreditable, even if the rumors are not true. In fact, I hear that many citizens of Brooklyn will be very glad indeed to see Harry the Horse, Little Isadore and Spanish John move away from there, as they are always doing something that is considered a knock to the community, such as robbing people, or maybe shooting or stabbing them, and throwing pineapples, and carrying on generally.
Dit kom uit "Butch minds the baby".
In "The Snatching of Bookie Bob" skryf hy Harry the Horse is "a character who does not care much what sort of business he is in, and who is mobbed up with ... Spanish John and Little Isadore, who do not care what sort of business they are in, either."
Harry-hulle het darem nooit sulke gewoontes gehad nie, maar hulle het ook nie vlerkies gedra nie
