took some time… looks more like a wolf than a horse, but should be ok at playing chess!!
had to restart the knight coz previous has been nice but not low poly enough… so here is LP version.
But I must say that I am not very happy about the problems of planar quads. I think it is impossible not to get quite a lot, and applying the edge split modifier is to my understanding just an approximate way of trying to hide them… not very nice IMO.