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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
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.
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]
Walter Farley (born Walter Lorimer Farley, 26 June 1915 – 16 October 1989) [1] was an American author, primarily of horse stories for children.His first and most famous work was The Black Stallion (1941), [2] the success of which led to many sequels over decades; the series has been continued since his death by his son Steven.
Bucephalus (/ b juː. ˈ s ɛ. f ə. l ə s /; Ancient Greek: Βουκεφᾰ́λᾱς, romanized: Būcephắlās; c. 355 BC – June 326 BC) or Bucephalas, was the horse of Alexander the Great, and one of the most famous horses of classical antiquity. [1]
Rugged Lark, famous quarter horse owned by Carol Harris, in the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame; Sampson, the tallest horse ever recorded; a Shire; stood 21.25 hands (86.5 inches; 220 cm) high; Spanker was a 17th-century sire of many important horses. Thunder, Red Ryder's horse; Traveler, mascot of the University of Southern California
Andrew Lang published the story with the name The Enchanted Horse, in his translation of The Arabian Nights, and renamed the prince Firouz Schah. [71] Folklorist William Forsell Kirby published a tale from "The Arabian Nights" titled Story of the Labourer and the Flying Chair: a poor labourer spends his earnings on an old chair. He returns to ...
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