List of historical horses

This list includes actual horses that exist in the historical record. For fictional horses, see: List of fictional horses.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Racehorses

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  • California Chrome: won the 140th Kentucky Derby; won the Preakness; won the 2016 Dubai World Cup; two-time American Horse of the Year
  • 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
  • Castleshane: winner of eight flat races and two jumps
  • Cicero: winner of the 1905 Epsom Derby as the shortest-priced successful favourite in the history of the event
  • 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\
  • Contrail: 2020 Japanese Triple Crown winner
  • Country House: Winner of Kentucky Derby 2019 after Maximum Security was demoted from 1st place for interference with other horses
  • Crisp: remembered for his epic race in the Grand National with Red Rum
  • Curlin: third richest US-based horse of all time, winner of 2007 Preakness Stakes and Breeders' Cup Classic and 2008 Dubai World Cup

D
  • Dan Patch: America's greatest pacer
  • Danehill: American-bred and British-trained sprint champion who went on to become a champion sire in both the northern and southern hemispheres; the first major "shuttle stallion"
  • Dance Smartly: second Canadian filly ever to win the Canadian Triple Crown, and the first to win a Breeders Cup Race
  • Dawn Run: only horse ever to complete Champion Hurdle, Cheltenham Gold Cup double
  • Deep Impact: Japanese Triple Crown winner; also smashed the world record over 3200 metres and seven-time leading sire in Japan
  • 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
  • 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
  • Doncaster: very successful racehorse, sire of the great Bend Or

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  • 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

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  • Hambletonian 10: the "father of American trotting"
  • Haru Urara: Became "the shining star of losers everywhere" (負け組の星, makegumi no hoshi) as she never won a single race in her career.[3][4]
  • Hurricane Fly: Irish hurdler, winner of a record 22 Grade I races
  • Hyperion: winner of The Derby and the St Leger Stakes; top sire for six years in the UK
  • Hastings: sire of Fair Play, who in turn sired the great Man o' War, successful racehorse

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  • Narita Brian: 1994 Japanese Triple Crown winner
  • Nasrullah: one of the most successful Thoroughbred sires of the 20th century, grandsire to Secretariat
  • Native Dancer (also nicknamed the Grey Ghost): won 21 of 22 career races, with only loss in the Kentucky Derby; sire whose descendants have come to dominate modern Triple Crown racing
  • Nearco Italian bred Thoroughbred racehorse. ''Thoroughbred Heritage'' described him as  "one of the greatest racehorses of the Twentieth Century" and "one of the most important sires of the century." He was undefeated and his sire line was dominant.
  • Needles: the first Florida-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby (1956), 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
  • Night Raid: sire of Phar Lap
  • Nijinsky: last horse to win the English Triple Crown (1970)
  • Northern Dancer: Canada's champion on the racetrack; most successful sire of the 20th century

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  • Oedipus: winner of the American Steeplechase triple crown
  • Oguri Cap: JRA Hall of Fame inductee; winner of many G1 races and ushered in an era of heightened popularity of the sport during his racing career
  • Oju Chosan: Steeplechase race horse who won numerous JG1 races, most notably winning the Nakayama Grand Jump for 5 times in a row.
  • Orfevre: winner of almost 20 million US dollars in earnings and is one of the highest earning racehorses ever
  • Overdose: champion Hungarian sprinter and winner of 14 straight races

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  • Peter Pan: winner of the Preakness Stakes, and had the Peter Pan Stakes named in his honor
  • Phar Lap: Australia and New Zealand's most famed Thoroughbred racehorse; won 37 of his 51 career starts
  • Pleasant Colony: 1981 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner
  • Potoooooooo: 18th-century thoroughbred racehorse who won over 30 races and defeated some of the greatest racehorses of the time.
  • Pretty Polly Irish Thoroughbred racehorse who won 15 consecutive races, fifth filly to win the British Fillies Triple Crown, record 24: 22-2-0

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  • Quevega: only horse in the history to win at six consecutive Cheltenham Festivals
  • Queensway: won the Canadian Triple Crown

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  • Rachel Alexandra: filly and winner of the 2009 Preakness Stakes
  • Rakwool: Australian bay gelding, won the 1931 Grand National Steeplechase
  • Roy Olcott: harness racehorse
  • Real Quiet: winner of the 1998 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes; lost the third leg of the U.S. Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, by a margin of four inches
  • 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
  • Rice Shower: Winner of the 1992 Kikka Sho and two-time Tenno Sho winner; euthanized after breaking his leg during the 1995 Takarazuka Kinen
  • 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 she started until her final (and fatal) race
  • Ruthless: first ever winner of the Belmont Stakes, and the first of only three fillies ever to win the Belmont Stakes

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  • Vain: champion front runner; great, great grandsire of Black Caviar
  • Varenne: Italy's most famous harness horse
  • Vodka: First filly in 64 years to win the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) in 2007[6]
  • Vo Rouge: fast frontrunner and 3-time winner of the C F Orr Stakes, had the Vo Rogue Plate named in his honor
  • Voltaire: winner of the 1828 Doncaster Gold Cup
  • Voltigeur: Won the Derby and the St Leger in 1850 and beat The Flying Dutchman in the Doncaster Cup. In 1851 Voltigeur was beaten by The Flying Dutchman in what was probably the most celebrated match race in the history of British thoroughbred racing.

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  • Xaar: winner of Prix de Cabourg (1997), Prix de la Salamandre (1997)
  • Xtra Heat: champion 3-year-old filly of 2001, and the only filly to win the Endine stakes twice

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  • Yeats: only horse ever to win 4 Ascot Gold Cups, also won 3 other group 1 races
  • Your Host: winner of 1950 Santa Anita Derby, 1951 Santa Catalina Handicap, sire of the great Kelso

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Competition horses
  • Big Ben, Canadian international show jumper and Olympian
  • Halla (1945-1979), German show jumper that won two World Championships and three Olympic gold medals, carried injured rider to Individual and Team Gold medals in 1956 Olympics
  • Hickstead, Canadian international show jumper and Olympic individual show jumping gold medal winner
  • 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)
  • Midnight inducted into five different halls of fame, this bucking horse famously bucked at the best rodeos throughout the West and Canada
  • Midnight Sun, two-time Grand Champion and leading foundation sire of the Tennessee Walking Horse breed
  • 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
  • Scamper, ProRodeo Hall of Fame horse in barrel racing for hall of fame rider Charmayne James. They won the National Finals Rodeo a consecutive 10 times in a row, a record that still stands today.
  • Seldom Seen, pony who successfully competed in dressage despite being unusually small
  • Snowman, former plough horse rescued by rider Harry de Lyer from being butchered; 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
  • Totilas, first horse to score above a 90 in dressage
  • Touch of Class, bay TB mare, ridden by Joe Fargis, won two gold medals in the 1984 Olympics
  • Valegro, current world record holder in dressage with 94.3% Royal Dutch Sport Horse, ridden by Charlotte Dujardin

Military horses
See also: List of horses of the American Civil War

Horses of various other fame

See also

References
  1. Greg Wood (January 15, 2013). "Frankel World's Best Thoroughbred". Theguardian.com. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
  2. 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
  3. "Losing Racehorse Charms Japan". CBS News. March 22, 2004. Archived from the original on February 25, 2020. Retrieved December 2, 2022.
  4. "Japanese cheer on no-hope horse". BBC News. April 22, 2004. Archived from the original on April 2, 2004. Retrieved November 7, 2009.
  5. Denhardt, Robert Moorman (1967) Quarter Horses: A Story of Two Centuries University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, pp. 20-32, OCLC 1381366
  6. "天女ウオッカ強く、美しくダービー制覇". www.sponichi.co.jp. スポーツニッポン. May 28, 2007. Archived from the original on January 25, 2008. Retrieved September 5, 2021.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 23, 2018. Retrieved March 23, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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