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Rocinante, from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes; also the name of fictional horses in several other books and movies; Secret, from Gina Bertaina's The Secret Horse [2] Shadowfax, the horse ridden by Gandalf the White in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings; Sham from King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
Marguerite Henry (née Breithaupt; April 13, 1902 – November 26, 1997) [2] [3] [4] was an American writer of children's books, writing fifty-nine books based on true stories of horses and other animals. She won the Newbery Medal for King of the Wind, a 1948 book about horses, and she was a runner-up for two others. [5]
Rory: A job horse usually paired with Black Beauty. Became a coal carting horse after getting hit in the chest by a cart driven on the wrong side of the road. Peggy: A hired horse who cannot run very fast due to her short legs. She runs at an odd hopping pace between a trot and a canter when expected to keep pace with other horses at a fast trot.
Jim Key at the 1904 World's Fair. Beautiful Jim Key was a famous performing horse around the turn of the twentieth century. [1] His promoters claimed that the horse could read and write, handle money, perform arithmetic for numbers below thirty, [2] and recite Bible passages "where the horse is mentioned."
Scholarship points that the tale migrated to Europe and inspired similar medieval stories about a fabulous mechanical horse. [6] [7] These stories include Cleomades, [8] [9] Chaucer's The Squire's Tale, [10] [11] Valentine and Orson [12] and Meliacin ou le Cheval de Fust, by troubador Girart d'Amiens . [13] The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis ...
Misty of Chincoteague is a children's novel written by pony book author Marguerite Henry, illustrated by Wesley Dennis, and published by Rand McNally in 1947.Set in the island town of Chincoteague, Virginia, the book was inspired by the real-life story of the Beebe family and their efforts to raise a Chincoteague Pony filly born to a wild horse, who would later become known as Misty of ...
The Black Stallion is the name of a bestselling series of books by Walter Farley, and also the name of the first book in the series (from 1941), and the title character, an Arab stallion also known as the Black or Shêtân. The series chronicles the story of a Sheikh's prized stallion after a ship journey gone awry brings it into the possession ...
In the 1982 film Tex, lead character Tex McCormick refers to Smoky the Cowhorse as his favorite book. The 2005 Nobel Prize winner economist and professor Thomas Schelling said the most influential book he ever read was Smoky the Cowhorse. “He’d say it was the first time he understood empathy for other human beings". [3]