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This list includes actual horses that exist in the historical record. Racehorses are listed at
List of racehorses
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Racehorse
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List of racehorses
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List of leading Thoroughbred racehorses
Famous horses
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- Bamboo Harvester
, portrayed a talking horse in the title role of the TV series
Mister Ed
, retired in Shasta County
- Benjamin
, a
Belgian Warmblood
who portrayed the King's horse, Maximus, ridden by
Lee Min-ho
in the TV series
The King: Eternal Monarch
- Brooklyn Supreme
, said to be the largest horse in history
- Burmese
, favourite mount of
Queen Elizabeth II
; a gift from the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Buttermilk
,
Dale Evans
' horse
- Champion
,
Gene Autry
's horse
- Clever Hans
, reputedly smart horse
- D'Arcy Yellow Turk
, early foundation stallion with at least 4 lines of descent each to the three foundation sire champion racehorses of
Thoroughbreds
:
Eclipse
,
Herod
, and
Matchem
- Darley Arabian
,
Godolphin Arabian
and
Byerly Turk
, stallions from whom all
Thoroughbreds
are descended
- Figure
(also known by the name of one of his owners,
Justin Morgan
), the foundation sire of the
Morgan horse
breed
- Gunrock
, used in the 1920s at
UC Davis
to breed horses for the
U.S. Army
Cavalry
- Hollywood Dun It
, all-time leading reining sire and
Quarter Horse
- Incitatus
, Emperor
Caligula
's favorite horse; may have been proposed as a senator
- Jim
, former milk cart horse used to produce diphtheria antitoxin; contamination of this antitoxin inspired the
Biologics Control Act
of 1902
- King
, a foundation sire of the Quarter Horse breed
- Marocco
or Bankes's Horse, a late 16th- and early 17th-century English performing horse
- Muhamed
, German horse allegedly capable of solving
cubic roots
- Occident
: a brown
pacing
gelding
owned by
Leland Stanford
used in
The Horse in Motion
- Old Bob
,
Abraham Lincoln
's horse
- Popcorn Deelites
, the main horse who played
Seabiscuit
in the Oscar Nominated film
Seabiscuit
- Prometea
, born May 28, 2003, the first cloned horse and the first to be born from and carried by its cloning mother
- Rugged Lark
, famous quarter horse owned by
Carol Harris
, in the
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
- Sampson
, the tallest horse ever recorded; a
Shire
; stood 21.25
hands
(86.5 inches; 220 cm) high
- Spanker
was a 17th century sire of many important horses.
- Thunder
,
Red Ryder
's horse
- Traveler
, mascot of the University of Southern California
- Trigger
,
Roy Rogers
'
Palomino
- Warpaint
, mascot of the NFL
Kansas City Chiefs
- Zippo Pine Bar
Inducted into American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame and
National Snaffle Bit Association Hall of Fame
Military horses
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- Babieca
, horse of
El Cid
- Bill the Bastard
, legendary Australian war horse
- Black Jack
, the last Quartermaster-issued
U.S. Army
horse, died February 6, 1976
- Blueskin
, one of Washington's two primary mounts during the American Revolutionary War
- Bucephalus
, favorite horse of
Alexander the Great
; one of the most famous horses of antiquity; following his death after the
Battle of Hydaspes
in 326 BCE, Alexander promptly founded the city of
Bucephala
upon the spot in his memory
- Chetak
, war horse of
Maharana Pratap
of
Mewar
in
India
; died defending its master in 1576 during the
Battle of Haldighati
- Cincinnati
, one of
Ulysses S. Grant
's horses
- Comanche
, only documented survivor of General Custer's 7th Cavalry detachment at the
Battle of Little Big Horn
- Copenhagen
, the
Duke of Wellington
's favourite horse, which he rode at the
Battle of Waterloo
- Dh?lj?n??
, the horse of
Husayn ibn Ali
in the
Battle of Karbala
- Favorito
, the personal horse of
Charles Albert of Savoy
,
King of Sardinia
from 1831 to the king's death in 1849
- Kasztanka
, mare that belonged to interwar Poland's leader, Marshal
Jozef Piłsudski
- Llamrei
, horse of
King Arthur
- Marengo
,
Napoleon's
horse which was captured by the British, and outlived Napoleon by eight years
- Matsukaze
, personal horse of
Maeda Keiji
- Nelson
, one of Washington's two primary mounts during the American Revolutionary War
- Palomo
, main horse of
Simon Bolivar
- Reckless
, became a decorated Marine for carrying supplies and ammunition into battle for the US Marine platoon in the
Korean War
- Red Hare
, also known as Chitu,
Lu Bu
's horse from the
Three Kingdoms
; inspired the phrase "Among men: Lu Bu. Among horses: Red Hare"
- Sefton
, survivor of the
Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings
in 1982
- Streiff
, horse of
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden
at the
battle of Lutzen (1632)
- Tencendur
, warhorse of King
Charlemagne
- Traveller
,
Robert E. Lee
's horse
- Veillantif
, horse of
Roland
, a Frankish military leader under
Charlemagne
- Warrior
, "Old Warrior", the mount of General
Jack Seely
in the First World War from 1914 to 1918; awarded the
Dickin Medal
in 2014
- Wexy
, the war horse of the then
Prince of Orange
, Prince Willem Frederik of Orange, the later
King William II of the Netherlands
which he rode during the
Battle of Waterloo
. He horse was wounded during the battle as was the Prince. After it's dead the horse was mounted and till this day is one of the oldest mounted horses in Europe which is still being preserved at the
Royal Stables
in
The Hague
.
Competition horses
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For racehorses, such as
Secretariat
and
Man o' War
, see
List of racehorses
.
- Big Ben
,
Canadian
international
show jumper
and
Olympian
owned and ridden by
Ian Millar
- Brentina
,
American
international
dressage
horse and
Olympian
ridden by
Debbie McDonald
- Halla
(1945-1979), German
show jumper
that carried an injured rider to Individual and Team Gold medals in the
1956 Summer Olympics
- Hickstead
, Canadian international show jumper and Olympic individual show jumping gold medal winner
- Huaso
, famous
Chilean
show jumper
; holder of the high jump world record, one of the world's longest unbroken sport records
- Midnight
inducted into five different halls of fame, this
bucking horse
famously bucked at the best rodeos throughout the West and Canada
- Midnight Sun
, two-time Grand Champion and leading foundation sire of the Tennessee Walking Horse breed
- Milton
: 20th-century showjumping gelding that competed for
British
with
John Whitaker
, winning several championships
- Noble Flaire
,
Morgan horse
who was the first to win three Park Harness World Championships at the American Morgan Horse World Championship Horse Show
- Peppermint Grove, ridden by Australian
Gillian Rolton
- Radium
, outstanding
campdrafter
; influential sire in Australia
- Rafalca
,
American
international
dressage
horse and
Olympian
co-owned by
Jan Ebeling
and
Ann Romney
- Scamper
,
ProRodeo Hall of Fame
horse in
barrel racing
for hall of fame rider
Charmayne James
. They won the
National Finals Rodeo
a consecutive 10 times in a row, a record that still stands today.
- Seldom Seen
,
pony
who successfully competed in
dressage
despite being unusually small
- Snowman
, former
plough
horse rescued by rider Harry de Lyer from being butchered; won the 1958
National Horse Show
Open Jumper championship against professional and Olympic level competition; twice named the American Horse Shows Association Horse of the Year
- Totilas
, first horse to score above a 90 in dressage
- Touch of Class
, bay Thoroughbred mare, ridden by Joe Fargis, won two gold medals in the 1984 Olympics
- Valegro
, current world record holder in dressage with 94.3% Royal Dutch Sport Horse, ridden by Charlotte Dujardin
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