Contents

1 Horses in Mythology 2 Horses in Literature 3 Horses in Film 4 Horses in Television 5 Horses in Animation 6 Horses in Song 7 Related topics

Horses in Mythology

• Arion, an immortal, extremely swift horse
• Arvak and Alsvid pulled Sol's chariot
• Baku, horse-bodied dream-eaters
• Bucephalus, semi-legendary horse of Alexander the Great
• Centaur, part human, part horse
• Dyaus Pita, the Sky Father, who appears as a horse
• Embarr was Niamh's horse
• Gandharva, male nature spirits, usually part horse
• Hengroen , King Arthur's horse
• Llamrei , King Arthur's mare
• Hofvarpnir was Gna's horse
• the Mares of Diomedes, which fed on human flesh
• Pegasus, a winged horse
• the Sileni were half-man, half-horse
• the Trojan Horse
• Skinfaxi was Dagur's horse
• Sleipnir, Odin's eight-legged horse
• Unicorn
• Widow-Maker , mythical cowboy Pecos Bill's horse

Horses in Literature

• Arod , Legolas's horse in The Lord of the Rings
• Artax, Atreyu's horse in Michael Ende's The Neverending Story
• Bill the Pony, owned by the Hobbits in The Lord of the Rings
• Binky, ridden by Death in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
• Black Beauty, from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
• Black Bess, Dick Turpin's horse.
• the Black, from a series of 21 books by Walter Farley beginning with The Black Stallion (1941)
• Boxer, from Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Breehy-hinny-brinny-hoohy-hah ("Bree" for short), from The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
• Bumpkin , Merry Brandybuck's horse in The Lord of the Rings
• Many 'Companions', which are human spirits reincarnated in the form of white horses in Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series of books.
• Concorde, the mount of Sir Lancelot in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (not a real horse, but a page banging coconuts together)
• Condor, the mount of Green Rider Karigan G'ladheon in Kristen Britain's "Green Rider" series of books
• De Lü , the mount of Chinese warlord Liu Bei in the Romance of Three Kingdoms
• Fatty Lumpkin , horse owned by Tom Bombadil in The Lord of the Rings
• Firefoot , horse owned by �omer in The Lord of the Rings
• Flame, from the Black Stallion series
• Flicka, from My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
• the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent and cultured horses in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Hasufel , Aragorn's horse in The Lord of the Rings
• Lark, from The Berserker's Horse by Lisa Maxwell
• Nara, a Hunnuli or magical horse, from the Dark Horse series by Mary H. Herbert
• the Pie, from National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
• Rocinante, from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
• Red Hare, the mount of L� Bu and Guan Yu in the Chinese epic Romance of Three Kingdoms
• Šarac, horse of Marko Kraljevic
• Roheryn , horse owned by Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings
• Satan, from the Black Stallion series
• Shadowfax, Gandalf's horse from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Sharp-ears , horse owned by Merry Brandybuck from The Lord of the Rings
• Silver Blaze, eponymous hero of a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Snowmane, horse owned by King Th�oden from The Lord of the Rings
• Strider , pony owned by Frodo Baggins from The Lord of the Rings
• Stybba , pony owned by Merry Brandybuck of The Lord of the Rings
• Swish-tail , pony owned by Merry Brandybuck of The Lord of the Rings
• White-socks , pony owned by Merry Brandybuck of The Lord of the Rings
• Windfola , horse of Dernhelm ridden by �owyn from The Lord of the Rings
• Wise-nose , pony owned by Merry Brandybuck of The Lord of the Rings
• Rossinant , Don Kihot horse

Horses in Film

• Khartoum, the horse in The Godfather
• Trigger, Roy Rogers' horse.
• various horses in The Man From Snowy River

Horses in Television

• Black Beauty from The Adventures of Black Beauty, loosely based on the novel (see above)
• Champion the Wonder Horse , eponymous hero of a 1950s series
• the Clydesdales? of the Budweiser beer commercials
• Edmund, Aunt Manya's imaginary pony, from Seinfeld
• Mr. Ed, from the TV show of that name
• Esquilax, in the Simpsons
• Fury , the black stallion of the 1950s TV series of the same name
• Hercules, Steptoe and Son's horse
• Pokey, of The Gumby Show
• Pony Puff Princess, Dee Dee's idol in Dexter's Laboratory
• Quick Draw McGraw, of Hanna-Barbera's cartoon series
• Silver, the Lone Ranger's horse
• Eponymous White Horses in the Yugoslav childen's series, seen in an English dubbed version in the late 1960s/early 1970s.
• Tornado, Zorro's horse
• Scout, Tonto's horse

Horses in Animation

• characters in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
• Horace Horsecollar
• Khan in Disney's Mulan
• Philip, in Disney's Beauty and the Beast
• Barbie's horse
• Noble Heart Horse - a Care Bears cousin

Horses in Song

• Spookyhorse, "This horse that likes to spunked all over you" by Bean Yellow by Spookyhorse
• Eponymous Chestnut Mare in the song by The Byrds
• Eponymous Horse with No Name (assuming a nameless horse can be eponymous) in the song by America
• Feitlebaum the racehorse who always finishes last (even in a car race) in songs by Doodles Weaver (performed with Spike Jones and his City Slickers)
• "Horses" by Patti Smith
• "My Lovely Horse", a fictional Eurovision Song Contest entry sung by Father Ted Crilly and Father Dougal McGuire on Father Ted
• "On Horseback", coda to Ommadawn by Mike Oldfield
• Stewball, the racehorse in the song of that name
• "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?" by U2
• "Wild Horses" by The Rolling Stones
• "Wildfire" by Michael Murphy
• The "Old Gray Mare" in the song of that name
• The waltzing Henry the Horse from The Beatles' Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite (based on a real horse called Zanthus)

Related topics

• List of historical horses
• List of fictional animals