List of historical horses

Racehorses

A

Adios: leading sire of harness racehorses
Adios Butler: famous harness racer
Affirmed: U.S. Triple Crown winner (1978)
Ajax: 18 consecutive race wins, before he was defeated at 1/40
Albatross: harness racer who won 59 of 71 races, and as a sire produced winners of over $130 million, including Niatross
Allez France: French Arc winner and first filly to win a million dollars
Alydar: finished second to Affirmed in all three Triple Crown races; successful sire
American Pharoah: 2015 winner of the U.S. Triple Crown, and the 2015 Breeders Cup World Championships in Lexington, Kentucky at Keeneland Race Course.
Animal Kingdom: American Thoroughbred racehorse; won 137th Kentucky Derby and 2013 Dubai World Cup
Aristides: winner of the first Kentucky Derby
Arkle: highest Timeform rating for a steeplechase horseracer
Assault: U.S. Triple Crown winner (1946)

B

Barbaro: American Thoroughbred who decisively won the 2006 Kentucky Derby, but shattered his leg two weeks later in the 2006 Preakness Stakes, ending his racing career; underwent several operations; eventually healed, but developed laminitis and could not be saved; euthanized January 29, 2007
Bernborough: Australian racehorse and winner of 15 consecutive races at big weights; sold to US film producer Louis B. Mayer
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
Black Caviar: undefeated in 25 career starts; fifteen-time Group 1 winner
Bold Ruler: leading sire of stakeswinners; born in the same barn the same night as Round Table
Bret Hanover: one of only nine pacers to win the Triple Crown of Harness Racing for Pacers; had 62 wins from 69 starts; the only horse to be made Harness Horse of the Year three times
Brigadier Gerard: winner of 17 of 18 races in England, including the 2000 Guineas and 11 other Group I races; joint third highest Timeform flat rating of all time
Buckpasser: won 15 consecutive races; one of the greatest broodmare sires in history

C

California Chrome: won the 140th Kentucky Derby; won the Preakness; won the 2016 Dubai World Cup; richest U.S.-based racehorse of all time
Carbine: outstanding racehorse and sire; winner of the Melbourne Cup
Cardigan Bay: New Zealand's "million dollar pacer"; the first to win a million in the US; appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show
Cigar: champion in the 1990s who won 16 consecutive races
Citation: U.S. Triple Crown winner (1948); also won 16 consecutive major stakes races; first horse to earn $1 million
Crisp: remembered for his epic race in the Grand National with Red Rum
Curlin: richest North American-based horse of all time

D

Dan Patch: America's greatest pacer
Dawn Run: only horse ever to complete Champion Hurdle, Cheltenham Gold Cup double
Deep Impact: Japanese horse who smashed the world record over 3200 metres
Desert Gold: race mare who won 19 races successive races during World War I; often raced against Gloaming
Desert Orchid: won King George four times and Cheltenham Gold Cup; national icon and beautiful grey loved by children
Dr. Fager: "the Doctor"; set the world record at 1 mile on any surface, 1:32 1/5, and held it for more than 20 years

E

Easy Goer: Hall of Fame champion who ran the fastest mile of all time on dirt by any three-year-old Thoroughbred in 1:32.2; ran the second fastest Belmont Stakes of all time behind Secretariat; had a great rivalry with Sunday Silence
Eclipse: celebrated 18th-century racehorse that won 18 races in 18 starts; influential sire
Eight Belles: first filly to win the Martha Washington Stakes, by a record 13½ lengths
Exterminator: exceedingly popular "iron horse" of American racing history

F

Frankel: undefeated in 14 career starts; highest rated flat race horse in history: WTR 140;^[1] Timeform 147, Racing Post 143
Funny Cide: first gelding since Clyde Van Dusen to win the Kentucky Derby
Flyingbolt: Widely considered as the second best Steeplechaser of all-time. Stablemate of Arkle. Timeform rated 210. 2lb inferior to Arkle.

G

Gainsborough: winner of the English Triple Crown; leading sire
Galileo: Seven-time Leading sire in Great Britain & Ireland; Sire of Frankel; Has sired 102 Group 1 winners worldwide as of December 2015.
Genuine Risk: second filly to win the Kentucky Derby (1980)
Gloaming: won 19 successive races in New Zealand and Australia; record was 67 starts for 57 wins and 9 seconds
Go Man Go: champion running Quarter Horse
Goldsmith Maid: famous harness racing mare of the 19th century^[2]
Greyhound: named trotting horse of the century in the US

H

Huaso (1933 – August 24, 1961): famous Chilean jumping horse that still holds the record in highest jump: 2.47 m (8 ft 1 ¹⁄₄ in)
Hambletonian 10: the "father of American trotting"
Hickstead: Olympic gold medal-winning show jumping horse; died in a cardiac accident while jumping in a Comp
Hurricane Fly: Irish hurdler, winner of a record 20 Grade I races
Hyperion: winner of the Epsom Derby and the St Leger Stakes; top sire for six years in the UK

I

Iroquois: first American-bred racehorse to win the Epsom Derby

J

John Henry: U.S. Champion Turf Horse (1980, 1981, 1983, 1984)

K

Kelso: only five-time U.S. Horse of the Year
Kincsem: Hungarian race mare and most successful racehorse ever, winning all 54 starts in five countries
Kindergarten: weighted more than Phar Lap in the Melbourne Cup
Kingston Town: won three Cox Plates; first Australian horse to top $1million in stakes earnings
Kissin George: one of America's premier sprinting Thoroughbred racehorses

L

La Troienne: most important broodmare of the twentieth century
Lady Suffolk: first horse to beat the 2.5 minute mile^[3]^[4]
Lexington: America's leading 19th-century sire
Longfellow: 19th-century runner and stallion
Lottery: winner of the Grand National steeplechase in 1839

M

Makybe Diva: won the Melbourne Cup on three occasions
Man o' War: often considered America's greatest racehorse; won 20 of 21 career starts
Master Charlie: winner of the 1924 Remsen Stakes, Tijuana Futurity, Hopeful Stakes, Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes; awarded 1924 American Champion Two-Year-Old-Male/Colt
Might and Power: World Champion Stayer (1997); Australian Horse of the Year (1998, 1999)
Mr. Prospector: one of the most successful U.S. sires of the late 20th century

N

Nasrullah: one of the most successful Thoroughbred sires of the 20th century
Native Dancer: won 21 of 22 career races, with only loss in the Kentucky Derby; sire whose descendants have come to dominate modern Triple Crown racing
Needles: the first Florida-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby and also won the Belmont Stakes.
Niatross: pacer who won 37 of his 39 races and broke many records, considered to be one of the greatest harness racers of all time
Nijinsky II: last horse to win the English Triple Crown (1970)
Northern Dancer: Canada's champion on the racetrack; most successful sire of the 20th century

P

Phar Lap: Australia and New Zealand's most famed Thoroughbred racehorse; won 37 of his 51 career starts

R

Rachel Alexandra: filly and winner of the 2009 Preakness Stakes
Red Rum: only horse in the history of the Aintree Grand National to win the race three times (placed second on two other occasions)
Regret: first filly to win the Kentucky Derby (1915)
Ribot: Thoroughbred undefeated in sixteen races
Rock Sand: English Triple Crown winner (1903); sire of the dam of Man o' War
Round Table: sire of stakes winners; born in the same barn the same night as Bold Ruler, in 1954
Ruffian: filly champion who won every race since she started until her final (and fatal) race

S

Sadler's Wells: one of Europe's most successful sires of the late 20th century
Sardar: stallion presented as a gift to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy by President Ayub Khan on her visit to Pakistan
Sea Bird: second highest Timeform rated horse (rated 145)
Sea the Stars: first horse ever to win the 2,000 Guineas, Epsom Derby, and Arc de Triomphe in the same year (2009)
Seabiscuit: beat War Admiral in a nationally broadcast 1938 match race; like Phar Lap, raced during the Depression
Seattle Slew: U.S. Triple Crown winner (1977)
Secretariat: U.S. Triple Crown winner (1973); one of the most famous horses in Thoroughbred racing
Shergar: winner of the 1981 Epsom Derby by a record 10 lengths, the longest winning margin in a race run annually since 1781; kidnapped by the IRA in 1983, and was held for ransom, but the owner syndicate refused to pay, fearing that valuable horses would become targets; the stallion was never found
Silky Sullivan: arguably the fastest closer of all time
Skewball: immortalized in 18th century poetry as a sku-ball winning against a Thoroughbred
Smarty Jones: became the first unbeaten Kentucky Derby winner since Seattle Slew in 1977
Spectacular Bid: Hall of Fame champion who went undefeated as a four-year-old, and won 26 of 30 career starts
Steel Dust: 19th-century quarter-mile racing horse^[5]
Storm Cat: one of the most successful U.S. sires of the late 20th century
Sunday Silence: winner in the US; champion sire in Japan
Sunline: first Southern Hemisphere horse to top $10million in stakes earnings; three-time Australian (2000-2002); four-time New Zealand (1999-2002) horse of the year; 13-time Group 1 winner

T

Totilas: first horse to score above a 90 in dressage

V

Vain: champion front runner; great, great grandsire of Black Caviar
Valegro: Current world record holder in dressage with 94,3% Royal Dutch Sport Horse. Ridden by Charlotte Dujardin
Varenne: Italy's most famous harness horse

W

War Admiral: fourth U.S. Triple Crown winner (1937)
Whistlejacket: Marquess of Rockingham's racehorse; painted by G. Stubbs (1762)
Winning Colors: third filly to win the Kentucky Derby (1988)

Z

Zenyatta: won 19 of 20 starts; first mare to win the Breeders' Cup Classic (2009); first to win two different Breeders' Cup races (Ladies' Classic in 2008, Classic in 2009)

Competition horses

Big Ben, Canadian international show jumper and Olympian
Hickstead, Canadian international show jumper and Olympic individual show jumping gold medal winner
Milton, British international show jumper and Olympian ridden by John Whitaker
Noble Flaire, Morgan horse who was the first to win three Park Harness World Championships at the American Morgan Horse World Championship Horse Show
Radium, outstanding campdrafter; influential sire in Australia
Seldom Seen, pony who successfully competed in dressage despite being unusually small
Snowman, former plough horse rescued from being butchered by rider Harry de Lyer; 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
Touch of Class, bay TB mare, ridden by Joe Fargis, won two gold medals in the 1984 Olympics

Military horses

Babieca, horse of El Cid
Black Jack, the last Quartermaster-issued U.S. Army horse, died February 6, 1976
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 Rana Pratap of Mewar in India
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
Dhūljānāḥ, the horse of Husayn ibn Ali in the Battle of Karbala
Kasztanka, horse of Józef Piłsudski, likely the most famous Polish horse
Llamrei, steed 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
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, Lü Bu's horse from the Three Kingdoms; inspired the phrase "Among men: Lü Bu. Among horses: Red Hare"
Streiff, horse of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden at the battle of Lützen (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

Horses of various other fames

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, a smart horse
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
Gun Rock, the offspring of Man O' War 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
Huaso, Chilean-bred horse; holder of the high jump world record set in Chile on 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, 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
Mister Ed, from the television show of same name, retired in Shasta County
Muhamed, German horse allegedly capable of solving cubic roots
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
Sampson, the tallest horse ever recorded; a Shire; stood 21.2½ hands high
Thunder, Red Ryder's horse
Traveler, mascot of the University of Southern California
Trigger, Roy Rogers' Palomino
Zippo Pine Bar

Notes

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↑ Greg Wood. "Frankel World's Best Thoroughbred". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
↑ Kirsch, George B. (editor) (1995) "Smuggler vs. Goldsmith Maid, 1876" Sports in North America: A Documentary History, Volume 4: Sports in war, revival and expansion, 1860-1880 Academic International Press, Gulf Breeze, Florida, pp. 206-210, ISBN 0-87569-135-8
↑ Hotaling, Edward (1995) They're off!: horse racing at Saratoga Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York, page 25, ISBN 0-8156-0350-9
↑ "The Horse in 19th Century American Sport: The Golden Age of the Trotting Horse" International Museum of the Horse
↑ Denhardt, Robert Moorman (1967) Quarter Horses: A Story of Two Centuries University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, pp. 20-32, OCLC 1381366

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