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Horses in Mythology
- Arion, an immortal, extremely swift horse
- Arvak and Alsvid pulled Sol's chariot
- Baku, horse-bodied dream-eaters
- Bucephalus, semi-legendary horse of Alexander the Great
- Centaur, part human, part horse
- Dyaus Pita, the Sky Father, who appears as a horse
- Embarr was Niamh's horse
- Gandharva, male nature spirits, usually part horse
- Hengroen, King Arthur's horse
- Llamrei, King Arthur's mare
- Hofvarpnir was Gna's horse
- the Mares of Diomedes, which fed on human flesh
- Pegasus, a winged horse
- the Sileni were half-man, half-horse
- the Trojan Horse
- Skinfaxi was Dagur's horse
- Sleipnir, Odin's eight-legged horse
- Unicorn
- Widow-Maker, mythical cowboy Pecos Bill's horse
Horses in Literature
- Artax, Atreyu's horse in Michael Ende's The Neverending Story
- Binky, ridden by Death in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
- Black Beauty, from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- Black Bess, Dick Turpin's horse.
- the Black, from a series of 21 books by Walter Farley beginning with The Black Stallion (1941)
- Boxer, from Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Breehy-hinny-brinny-hoohy-hah ("Bree" for short), from The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
- Many 'Companions', which are human spirits reincarnated in the form of white horses in Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series of books.
- Concorde, the mount of Sir Lancelot in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (not a real horse, but a page banging coconuts together)
- Condor, the mount of Green Rider Karigan G'ladheon in Kristen Britain's "Green Rider" series of books
- De Lü, the mount of Chinese warlord Liu Bei in the Romance of Three Kingdoms
- Flame, from the Black Stallion series
- Flicka, from My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
- the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent and cultured horses in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Lark, from The Berserker's Horse by Lisa Maxwell
- Nara, a Hunnuli or magical horse, from the Dark Horse series by Mary H. Herbert
- the Pie, from National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
- Rocinante, from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Red Hare, the mount of Lü Bu and Guan Yu in the Chinese epic Romance of Three Kingdoms
- Šarac, horse of Marko Kraljevic
- Satan, from the Black Stallion series
- Shadowfax, from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Silver Blaze, eponymous hero of a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle
Horses in Film
- Khartoum, the horse in The Godfather
- Trigger, Roy Rogers' horse.
- various horses in The Man From Snowy River
Horses in Television
- Black Beauty from The Adventures of Black Beauty, loosely based on the novel (see above)
- Champion the Wonder Horse, eponymous hero of a 1950s series
- the Clydesdales? of the Budweiser beer commercials
- Edmund, Aunt Manya's imaginary pony, from Seinfeld
- Mr. Ed, from the TV show of that name
- Fury, the black stallion of the 1950s TV series of the same name
- Hercules, Steptoe and Son's horse
- Pokey, of The Gumby Show
- Quick Draw McGraw, of Hanna-Barbera's cartoon series
- Silver, the Lone Ranger's horse
- Eponymous White Horses in the Yugoslav childen's series, seen in an English dubbed version in the late 1960s/early 1970s.
- Tornado, Zorro's horse
Horses in Animation
- characters in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
- Horace Horsecollar
- Khan in Disney's Mulan
- Philip, in Disney's Beauty and the Beast
- Barbie's horse
Horses in Song
- Eponymous Chestnut Mare in the song by The Byrds
- Eponymous Horse with No Name (assuming a nameless horse can be eponymous) in the song by America
- Feitlebaum the racehorse who always finishes last (even in a car race) in songs by Doodles Weaver (performed with Spike Jones and his City Slickers)
- "Horses" by Patti Smith
- "My Lovely Horse", a fictional Eurovision Song Contest entry sung by Father Ted Crilly and Father Dougal McGuire on Father Ted
- "On Horseback", coda to Ommadawn by Mike Oldfield
- Stewball, the racehorse in the song of that name
- "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?" by U2
- "Wild Horses" by The Rolling Stones
- "Wildfire" by Michael Murphy
- The "Old Gray Mare" in the song of that name
- The waltzing Henry the Horse from The Beatles' Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite (although it was also a real horse)
