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List of fictional horses

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 Horses in Video Games

8 Related topics

Horses in Mythology

Arion, an immortal, extremely swift horse
Arvak and Alsvid pulled Sol's chariot
Baku, horse-bodied dream-eaters
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, horse of the goddess Gna in Norse mythology
the Mares of Diomedes, which fed on human flesh
Pegasus, a winged horse
the Sileni, a half-man, half-horse race in Greek mythology
the Trojan Horse
Skinfaxi was Dagur's horse
Sleipnir, Odin's eight-legged horse
Unicorns, a species of horned horse
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
The Golden Ass, 2nd century AD Roman novel in Latin.
Hasufel, Aragorn's horse in The Lord of the Rings
Hwin, from The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
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 or Sharkolia, horse of Prince Marko
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

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)
The Horse - title of instrumental 1968 rock song by Cliff Nobles and Co.
"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)

Horses in Video Games

Epona became Link's horse in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and again in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask