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.
- Arkle, reckoned the greatest steeplechaser of all time.
- Assault, United States 1946 Triple Crown winner.
- Cigar, a great champion in the 1990s.
- Citation, Triple Crown winner in 1948.
- Dance Smartly, Breeders' Cup champion
- Eclipse, celebrated 18th century racehorse that won 18 races in 18 starts.
- Funny Cide
- Goldsmith Maid, famous harness racing mare of the 19th Century.
- John Henry
- Kingston Town
- Phar Lap, New Zealand racehorse.
- Lottery, UK
- Man O' War, who re-wrote the record books.
- Might and Power
- Montrose
- Nijinsky II, last horse to win the English Triple Crown (1970).
- Northerly
- Northern Dancer
- Precious Bunny
- 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).
- Ruffian, a filly who won every race she started, except the one that killed her.
- Seattle Slew, Triple Crown winner in 1977.
- Seabiscuit
- Secretariat, Triple Crown winner of 1973.
- Shergar, the kidnapped winner of the 1981 Epsom Derby.
- Smarty Jones
- Steel Dust, 19th Century quarter-mile racing horse.
- War Admiral
CHETAK , The famous war horse of KATHIAWARI breed owned by Maharana Pratap of Udaipur & Chitod, in INDIA
Soldiers' horses
- Black Jack, the last Quartermaster-issued U.S. Army horse, died February 6, 1976.
- Blueskin, one of General Washington's horses.
- Bucephalus, Alexander the Great's horse.
- Cincinnati, one of Ulysses S. Grant's horses.
- Comanche, only US Cavalry survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn.
- Copenhagen, the Duke of Wellington's favourite horse, which he rode at the Battle of Waterloo.
- Ellen Edenberg, one of General Washington's horses at Valley Forge.
- Little Sorrel, Stonewall Jackson's horse.
- Magnolia, one of General Washington's horses.
- Marengo, Napoleon's horse which was captured by the British.
- (Old) Nelson, one of General Washington's horses.
- Red Hare, Lu Bu's and eventually Guan Yu's horse from the Three Kingdoms. Inspired the phrase "Lu Bu among men, Red Hare among horses".
- 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.
Horses of various other fames
- Barnum and Skip, the Wilders' driving team of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books and The First Four Years
- Buttermilk, Dale Evans' horse
- Clever Hans
- Cloud, 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.
- Hollywood Dun It, all-time leading reining sire and Quarter Horse.
- Incitatus, Emperor Caligula's favorite horse.
- Jim Key, "Smartest Horse in the World" a star attraction at 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis
- Justin Morgan, sire of the Morgan horse breed
- Kate and Bill, the Wilders' work horses of Laura Ingalls Wilder's The First Four Years
- King, foundation sire of the quarter horse.
- Prince and Lady, Almanzo Wilder's Morgan horse driving team of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books
- Prometea, clone
- Red Buck, the horse of Emmett Dalton
- Red Fox, a horse of Jesse James
- Sam and David, the Ingalls family work horses of Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books
- Trixie and Fly, and colts Kelpie and Susan, the Wilders' riding ponies of Laura Ingalls Wilder's The First Four Years
- Silver - "Hi Yo Silver, Away!" : The Lone Ranger
- Sportsman, John Mytton's horse, died when forced to drink a bottle of port wine.
- Tomboy, Stuart Hamblein's horse
- Trigger, Roy Rogers' "Golden Palomino"
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