List of historical horses

=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
* Big Brown, 2008 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner, first horse since Clyde Van Dusen to win the Kentucky Derby from the 20th post position.
* 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, winner of the Grand National steeplechase in 1839
* 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
* The Langer, winner of Class 5 at Taunton, usually ridden by Stefano Marzi
* 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
* Kasztanka, horse of Józef Piłsudski, likely the most famous Polish horse
* 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
* Matsukaze, personal horse of Maeda Keiji
* (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 1920s 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 Beauty, the horse Paul Revere borrowed for his famous ride.
* Muhamed, the German horse capable of solving cubic roots.

ee also

*List of fictional horses