List of historical horses
Additional recommended knowledge
Race horses
- Abercrombie
- Adios
- Adios Butler, famous harness-racer
- Affirmed, last horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown (1978)
- Albatross
- All Along
- Alydar, finished second to Affirmed in all three Triple Crown races, and one of the great sires in North American history
- Aristides, winner of the first Kentucky Derby
- Arkle, reckoned the greatest steeplechaser of all time
- Arko
- Assault, U.S. Triple Crown winner (1946)
- Barbaro, 2006 Kentucky Derby winner
- Best Mate, 2002, 2003 and 2004 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner, often given title 'Greatest Steeplechaser' since Arkle, and an equal to him
- Carbine, two-time winner of the Melbourne Cup
- Cigar, a great champion in the 1990s
- Citation, U.S. Triple Crown winner (1948)
- Dan Patch, America's greatest pacer
- Dance Smartly, Breeders' Cup champion
- Dawn Run, great racemare and the only horse ever to complete Champion Hurdle, Cheltenham Gold Cup double
- Desert Gold, won 19 times in a row during WWI
- Desert Orchid, won King George four times and Cheltenham Gold Cup, beautiful grey
- Eclipse, celebrated 18th century racehorse that won 18 races in 18 starts
- Exterminator exceedingly popular, "iron horse" of American racing history
- Funny Cide, first New York bred and first gelding since Clyde Van Dusen to win the Kentucky Derby
- Genuine Risk, the second filly to win the Kentucky Derby (1980)
- Gloaming
- Goldsmith Maid, famous harness racing mare of the 19th century
- John Henry, grand old man of racing
- Kelso, only five-time winner of U.S. Horse of the Year
- Kindergarten, weighted more than Phar Lap in the Melbourne Cup
- Kingston Town
- Kissin George
- La Troienne, most important broodmare of the Twentieth Century
- Lexington, America's leading 19th Century sire
- Longfellow, 19th century's great runner and great stallion
- Lottery, UK
- Makybe Diva, won Melbourne Cup three successive times
- Man o' War, often considered America's greatest racehorse; won 20 of 21 career starts
- Might and Power
- Montrose
- Nijinsky II, last horse to win the English Triple Crown (1970)
- Northerly
- Northern Dancer
- Precious Bunny
- Phar Lap, New Zealand/Australia's most famed racehorse; won 37 of 51 career starts
- Red Rum, only horse in the history of the Aintree Grand National to win the race three times (he also came second on two other occasions)
- Regret, the first filly to win the Kentucky Derby (1915)
- Rock Sand, English Triple Crown winner (1903) and sire of the dam of Man o' War
- Ruffian, the great filly champion who won every race she started until her final (and fatal) race
- Seattle Slew, U.S. Triple Crown winner (1977)
- Seabiscuit
- Secretariat, U.S. Triple Crown winner (1973)
- Shergar, the kidnapped winner of the 1981 Epsom Derby
- Silky Sullivan, arguably the fastest closer of all time
- Smarty Jones
- Spectacular Bid
- Steel Dust, 19th Century quarter-mile racing horse
- Skewball, (sometimes called "Stewball") immortalized in 18th century poetry as a sku-ball winning against a thoroughbred
- War Admiral
- Winning Colors, the third (and currently last) filly to win the Kentucky Derby (1988)
Competition horses
- Milton, a British international show jumper and Olympian ridden by John Whitaker
- Noble Flaire, a Morgan horse who was the first to win three Park Harness World Championships at the American Morgan Horse World Championship Horse Show
- Big Ben, a Canadian International show jumper and Olympian
Military horses
- Babieca, horse of El Cid
- Black Jack, the last Quartermaster-issued U.S. Army horse, died February 6, 1976
- Blackie, belonged to Chief Sitting Bull
- Blueskin, one of General Washington's horses
- Bucephalus, Alexander the Great's horse
- 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
- Gazala, horse of Baldwin I of Jerusalem
- Little Sorrel, Stonewall Jackson's horse
- Magnolia, one of General Washington's horses
- Marengo, Napoleon's horse which was captured by the British, and outlived Napoleon by eight years
- (Old) Nelson, one of General Washington's horses
- Palomo, the main horse of Simon Bolivar
- Red Hare, also known as Chitu, was Lü Bu's horse from the Three Kingdoms; inspired the phrase "Among men: Lü Bu. Among horses: Red Hare."
- Shadowless, the personal steed of Cao Cao
- Dilu, the personal steed of Liu Bei which was said to have a hex and marking on his face which would bring misfortune upon its rider
- Rienzi, Philip H. Sheridan's horse
- Roger Leo, one of General Washington's horses at Valley Forge
- Streiff, the horse of Gustavus Adolphus at the battle of Lützen
- Traveller, Robert E. Lee's horse
- Chetak, war horse of Rana Pratap of Mewar in India
- Llamrei, steed of King Arthur
- Kitty, horse belonging to Marshal of Finland Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Horses of various other fames
- Black Bess, highwayman Dick Turpin's horse
- Burmese, the favourite mount of Queen Elizabeth II, which was a gift from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the only horse Her Majesty ever rode for the Trooping the Colour ceremony
- Buttermilk, Dale Evans' horse
- Champion, Gene Autrey's horse
- Diablo, The Cisco Kid's horse
- Clever Hans, a smart horse
- Cloud, the wild mustang stallion documented from birth for a PBS Nature series
- The Darley Arabian, Godolphin Arabian, and Byerly Turk, the stallions from whom all thoroughbreds are descended
- Gun Rock, the offspring of Man O' War used in the 1920's at UC Davis to breed horses for the U.S. Army Cavalry
- Halla, the famed show jumping champion, with two world championships (1954 and 1955) and three Olympic gold medals (1956 and 1960)
- Hollywood Dun It, the all-time leading reining sire and Quarter Horse
- Huaso, Chilean bred horse, holder of the high jump world record set in Chile in february 5 of 1949, one of the world's longest unbroken sport records.
- Incitatus, Emperor Caligula's favorite horse, may have been made a Senator
- Jim Key, "Smartest Horse in the World," a star attraction at 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis
- Jim, a former milk cart horse used to produce diphtheria antitoxin; contamination of this antitoxin inspired the Biologics Control Act of 1902
- Justin Morgan, the sire of the Morgan horse breed
- King, foundation sire of the Quarter Horse
- Papoose, Little Beaver's horse Red Ryder's Navajo Ward Sidekick
- Prince and Lady, Almanzo Wilder's Morgan horse driving team of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books
- Prometea, born May 28, 2003, the first cloned horse and the first to be born from and carried by its cloning mother
- Red Buck, the horse of Emmett Dalton
- Red Fox, a horse of Jesse James
- Rocinante, Don Quixote's horse
- Sampson, the tallest horse ever recorded; he was a Shire and stood 21.2½ hands high
- Scout, Tonto's horse
- Silver, The Lone Ranger's horse
- Sportsman, John Mytton's horse, died when forced to drink a bottle of port wine
- Tarzan, white stallion of actor Ken Maynard
- Thunder, Red Ryder's horse
- Tony, horse of actor Tom Mix
- Chetak, horse of Rana Pratap Rana Pratap
- Trigger, Roy Rogers' Palomino
- Brown Betty, the horse Paul Revere borrowed for his famous ride.
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