White Horse
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Whitehorse or White Horse may refer to:
White equines
Mythology and symbolism
- White horse (mythology)
- White Horse of Hanover, a military cap badge, first granted by King George in 1715 to the 101st Grenadiers
- White horse of Kent, a heraldic symbol
Coat colors
- Gray (horse), most common white horse coat only becoming white at maturity
- White (horse), horse coat/skin mostly lacking in pigmentation
- Dominant white, a genetic mechanism that produces true white horse
- Sabino horse (SB-1), a genetic mechanism that sometimes produces a completely white horse
- Lethal white syndrome, a fatal genetic condition where foals are born with a white coat but also an underdeveloped colon
People
- White Horse (chief), died 1892, a chief of the Kiowa nation
- Logan Fontenelle, 1825–1855, a.k.a. Chief White Horse, a chief of the Omaha nation
Places
Cities, villages, towns
- Manderson-White Horse Creek, South Dakota, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota
- White Horse, California
- White Horse, New Jersey
- White Horse, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- Whitehorse, Chester County, Pennsylvania
- White Horse, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
- White Horse, South Dakota
- Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England
- Whitehorse, South Dakota, Dewey County, South Dakota
- City of Whitehorse, Victoria, Australia
- Whitehorse, Yukon, capital city of Yukon, Canada
- Whitehorse (electoral district), former electoral district
Geography, landscape and architecture
- White Horse Bluff (Whitehorse Bluffs), volcano in British Columbia, Canada
- White Horse Bridge, Wembley, England
- White Horse Stone, two megaliths near Aylesford, Kent, England
- White Horse Tavern (disambiguation)
- White Horse Temple, the first Buddhist temple in China
Hill figures
A hill figure is a large visual representation created by cutting into a steep hillside and revealing the underlying geology.
- Alton Barnes White Horse, near Devizes, Wiltshire, England
- Cherhill White Horse, near Calne, Wiltshire, England
- Devizes White Horse, Wiltshire, England
- Folkestone White Horse, Folkestone, Kent, England
- Kilburn White Horse, near Kilburn, North Yorkshire, England
- Osmington White Horse, near Osmington, Dorset, England
- Uffington White Horse, Oxfordshire, England
- Waimate White Horse, Waimate, New Zealand
- Westbury White Horse, Wiltshire, England
Arts and entertainment
Literature
- The Ballad of the White Horse, a poem by G.K. Chesterton
- White Horse Dialogue, a philosophical dialogue by Gongsun Longzi
- The White Horse in the Apocalypse (1758), a book by Emanuel Swedenborg
Music
- White Horse (album), a 1974 album by Michael Omartian
- Whitehorse (band), a Canadian folk rock band
- Whitehorse (album), a 2011 album by Whitehorse
- "Ride a White Horse", a 2005 song by Goldfrapp
- "White Horse" (Laid Back song), a 1983 song by Laid Back
- "White Horse" (Taylor Swift song), a 2008 song by Taylor Swift
- "White Horse" (Jessica 6 song), a 2011 song by Jessica 6
- "White Horse", a 1993 song by Kilo Ali
- "White Horse", a 2008 song by Sarah McLeod
Statues
- The White Horse at Ebbsfleet, Kent, England, a proposed gigantic sculpture
Theatre and screen
- White Horse (film), a 2008 documentary film by Maryann DeLeo
- The White Horse (series), a 1993 Russian television series
- The White Horses, a 1960s television series, which had a theme tune of the same name sung by Jacky
Transportation
- HMCS Whitehorse, a ship of the Canadian Forces
- White Horse, one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
- U.S. Route 30 in New Jersey, locally known as the White Horse Pike
Other
- White Horse Prophecy, a Mormon prophecy
- White Horse (military), nickname for the South Korean army's 9th Infantry Division
- White Horse (whisky), blended in Scotland, UK
- 1923 FA Cup Final, known as the White Horse Final, a football match
- Knight (chess), sometimes called white horse, a piece in the game of chess
See also
- The White Horse Inn (disambiguation)
- White knight (disambiguation)
- When a white horse is not a horse, a paradox in Chinese philosophy
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