A new “Horse In The City” now on display in Shawnee

Artist Sue Bear, second from left, with her daughter Janie Lynn Johnson, and Dana and David Taylor, the owners of the Plaza East Labyrinth Office Park, at 722 E. Independence in Shawnee, pose with Tony, the latest “Horse in the City,” on Jan. 16. Tony is a tribute to the Veterans of the United States Armed Forces and has been a work in progress for about three years. Countywide & Sun/Natasha Dunagan
Artist Sue Bear, second from left, with her daughter Janie Lynn Johnson, and Dana and David Taylor, the owners of the Plaza East Labyrinth Office Park, at 722 E. Independence in Shawnee, pose with Tony, the latest “Horse in the City,” on Jan. 16. Tony is a tribute to the Veterans of the United States Armed Forces and has been a work in progress for about three years. Countywide & Sun/Natasha Dunagan

There is a new “Horse in the City” in front of the Plaza East Labyrinth Office Park at 722 E. Independence in Shawnee. His name is Tony, and he is the second horse statue in Shawnee that is a tribute to veterans.

Unlike several other Horses in the City that were damaged in the April 2023 tornado, Tony has been a work in progress since before the tornado and was unfinished and safe inside an empty b…