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List of historical horses

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This list includes actual horses that exist in the historical record.

Acting and performing horses

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Non-racing competition horses

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For racehorses, such as Secretariat and Man o' War, see List of racehorses.

  • Big Ben (1976–1999), Canadian international and Olympic-level show jumper
  • Brentina (1991–2021), American international and Olympic-level dressage horse
  • Halla (1945–1979), German show jumper that carried her injured rider to gold medals in the 1956 Summer Olympics
  • Hickstead (1996–2011), Canadian international show jumper and Olympic individual show jumping gold medal winner
  • Huaso (1933–1961), Chilean show jumper which set the high jump world record in 1949, one of the world's longest unbroken sport records[d]
  • Midnight (1916–1936), a bucking horse inducted into several halls of fame
  • Milton (1977–1999), British showjumping gelding ridden by John Whitaker, won several world championships
  • Noble Flaire (1984–2006), Morgan horse who was the first to win three park harness world championships at the American Morgan Horse World Championship Horse Show
  • Rugged Lark, a very successful show competition quarter horse inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
  • Scamper (1977–2012), a champion barrel racer that won the Women's Pro Rodeo world championship ten years in a row, and many other top competitions. Scamper, a gelding, was cloned and his offspring stood at stud.
  • Seldom Seen (1970–1996), a small Thoroughbred-Connemara honored by the United States Dressage Federation in 2005 for its competition achievements, talent, and being an ambassador for the sport.
  • Snowman (1948–1974), won the 1958 National Horse Show Open Jumper championship; twice named the American Horse Shows Association Horse of the Year; enormously popular with audiences, making television appearances and inspiring books
  • Totilas (2000–2020), Dutch Warmblood stallion, first horse to score above a 90 in dressage (90.75 in 2009 and 92.3 in 2009)
  • Touch of Class (1973–2001), Thoroughbred show jumper, won two gold medals in the 1984 Olympics
  • Valegro (2002–), Dutch Warmblood gelding with four Olympic medals in dressage; broke Totilas' world records with a score of 93.975 in 2013, then 94.3 in 2014
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Racehorse

See List of racehorses and List of leading Thoroughbred racehorses

Record setting horses

Science and medicine

  • Jim, a horse used to produce diphtheria antitoxin but which contracted tetanus, causing contamination of some of the samples and resulting in several human deaths, leading to the Biologics Control Act of 1902
  • Occident, the trotting horse in the early motion photography study of 1878
  • Prometea, the first cloned horse (2003) and the first to be carried to term by its genetic donor

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Notes

  1. A third horse, Waka shirage/Waka shiraga/Waka shiroge (若白毛; "young white-coat") aka Machigimi (町君) is named alongside in Genpei Seisuiki.[12][13][14][15]
  2. Pseudo-historical. The horse Tencendur, like the king's sword Joyeuse appears in 12th century Song of Roland which is not a historical record attestation.
  3. Pseudo-historical. The horse Veillantif, like the sword Durendal appears in 12th century Song of Roland which is not a historical record attestation.
  4. As of 2025, this 76-year-old record has not been surpassed
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