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                      Abercrombie
                      (USA) - an outstanding pacer, stakes and free-for-all winner from age two through four.
                      Sired more than 1700 foals that have earned nearly $130 million.
                      Adios  (USA) -
                       considered by many harness historians and pedigree experts to be one of the most important and influential pacing sires of modern times.
                      Adios Butler
                      
                      (USA) - famous harness-racer�
                      Affirmed  (USA)
                      - last horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown (1978)
                      Ajax (Aust)  - in 1937 Ajax began a phenomenal run of 18 successive victories, in races now all at Group level. In six of these races he broke race or course records, or equalled Australian records.
                      Albatross�(USA)
                      - all-time record money-earning pacer of that era, winning 59 of 71
                      career starts and more than $1.2 million in career earnings, being crowned a world champion at ages two, three and four.
                      Alydar  (USA) -
                       finished second to Affirmed in all three Triple Crown races, and one of the great sires in North American history
                      Archer 
                      (Aust)  -  winner of the first Melbourne Cup in 1861
                      Arkle
                       
                      (Ire) - reckoned the greatest steeplechaser of all time
                      Bernborough (Aust)
                       -  37 starts, 26 wins, 2 seconds, 1 third, 8 unplaced
                      Better Loosen Up
                      (Aust) -
                       stake winnings exceeded $4.5 million. Inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame
                      Carbine   (NZ) -
                       Perhaps the greatest racehorse/sire ever bred in the southern hemisphere.
                      Cardigan Bay (NZ)
                       - pacer, won 80 races all up and retired to New Zealand.
                      Citation  (USA)
                      -  Triple Crown winner in 1948.
                      The first horse to win US$1 million.
                      Eclipse  (GB) -
                       celebrated 18th century racehorse that won 18 races in 18 starts.
                      80% of modern thoroughbred racehorses have Eclipse in their pedigrees
                      Gloaming
                      (Aust)
                      - Gloaming - He won 57 of his 67 starts, was second in nine others. Inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame
                      Hall Mark 
                      (Aust) - 1933 Melbourne Cup
                      winner
                      Heroic  (Aust) -
                       brilliant and versatile horse, Heroic won 21 races at distances from five furlongs to two miles. 
                      Inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame
                      John Henry
                      (USA) -�When he retired, he was the sport's all-time leading money-winner with $6,597,947 in purses.
                      Kingston Town
                      (Aust) -
                      the outstanding galloper of his era. 41 starts, 30 wins, 5
                      seconds, 2 thirds, 4 unplaced
                      Malua  (Aust) -
                       most versatile of all Australian champion gallopers, Malua won in the best company from three and a half furlongs to three and a quarter miles.
                      Manfred  (Aust)
                      - one of the most brilliant and most erratic racehorses of his
                      time. (1920's)
                      Manikato
                      (Aust) -  won 29 of his 47 starts and was second nine times and had career earnings of more than $1.1 million. Inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame
                      Man O' War 
                      (USA) -  who re-wrote the record books
                      Might & Power (NZ)
                       -  rated the world's best stayer in 1997 after taking out the Caulfield-Melbourne Cups double. He won 15 of his 33 career starts and earned more than $5 million in
                      prize money.
                      Nijinsky II
                      
                      (Can) -  last horse to win the English Triple Crown (1970)
                      Northern Dancer
                      
                      (Can) -
                      the most successful Thoroughbred sire ever
                      Peter Pan 
                      (Aust) -  1934 Melbourne Cup
                      winner. One of Australia�s greatest stayers. Inducted into the Hall of Fame
                      Phar Lap (NZ) -
                       great Australian racehorse. Won 36 races and was placed 5 times
                      Poitrel   -
                       Winner of the 1920 Melbourne Cup
                      Poseidon 
                      (Aust) - Won 11 of his 14 races including the 1906 Melbourne Cup. Has strong claims to be considered the greatest stayer ever produced in Australia.
                      Red Rum (IRE) -
                       only horse in the history of the Aintree Grand National Steeplechase to win the race three times (he also came second on two other occasions)
                      Rising
                      Fast (NZ) - Rising Fast was one of the greatest gallopers ever to grace the Australian turf. 
                      Seattle Slew
                      (USA) - Triple Crown winner in 1977
                      Seabiscuit (USA)
                      - became a public
                      favourite while winning 33 of his 89 career starts and amassing a then-record $437,730 in career prize money.
                      Secretariat
                      
                      (USA) - Triple Crown winner of 1973
                      Shergar  (IRE) - the kidnapped winner of the 1981 Epsom Derby
                      Sunline  (NZ) - the first horse to be inducted into the Hall of Fame while still racing. Her career statistics so far read 44 starts for 31 wins and ten placings and she is the all-time prize money record holder with more than $11 million in
                      prize money. 
                      The Barb
                      (Aust) -  winner of the 1866 Melbourne Cup.
                      Can lay strong claim to the title of Australia's first champion racehorse.
                      Tobin Bronze
                      (Aust) -  the star of the middle-distance and weight-for-age scene in Australia in the mid
                      1960s
                      Tulloch (NZ) -
                       his three-year-old career remains unmatched in Australian racing history.
                      Vain  (Aust) -
                       undoubtedly one of Australia�s greatest sprinters, he sired 370 winners of almost 1,800 races including two Golden Slipper winners
                      Wakeful  (Aust)
                      -  a late-starter as a racehorse, not competing until she was four but she certainly made up for lost time winning 19 weight-for-age races during her career.
                      War Admiral
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                |  HORSES IN MYTHOLOGY |  
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                | Arion - an immortal, extremely swift horse Arvak & 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
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                |  LORD OF THE RINGS |  
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                GandalfAragorn
 Aragorn
 Glorfindel
 Legolas
 Eorl
 Orom�
 Fingolfin
 Eowyn
 Eomer
 Legolas
 Tom Bombadil
 Aragorn
 Merry Brandybuck
 King Theoden
 Frodo Baggins
 Merry Brandybuck
 Merry Brandybuck
 Merry Brandybuck
 Merry Brandybuck
 Merry Brandybuck
 Owned by the Hobbits
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 Roheryn
 Asfaloth
 Arod
 Felar�f
 Nahar
 Rochellor
 Windfola
 Firefoot
 Arod
 Fatty Lumpkin
 Hasufel
 Sharp-ears
 Snowmane
 Strider
 Stybba,
 Swish Tail
 White Socks
 Wise Nose
 Bumpkin
 Bill the Pony
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                |  HORSES IN LITERATURE |  
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                    Arod, Legolas's horse in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings 
                  
                  Artax, Atreyu's horse in Michael Ende's The Neverending Story 
                  
                  Bill the Pony, owned by the Hobbits in The Lord of the RingsBinky, 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
                  
                  Blaze, from a series of children's books by C.W. Anderson, beginning with Billy and Blaze
                  
                  Boxer, from Animal Farm by George Orwell 
                  
                  Breehy-hinny-brinny-hoohy-hah ("Bree" for short), from The Horse and His Boy
                  
                  Bumpkin, Merry Brandybuck's horse in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings 
                  
                  Many 'Companions', which are human spirits reincarnated in the form of white horses
                  
                  Condor, the mount of Green Rider Karigan G'ladheon in Kristen Britain's Green Rider books 
                  
                  De L�, the mount of Chinese warlord Liu Bei in the Romance of Three Kingdoms 
                  
                  Fatty Lumpkin, horse owned by Tom Bombadil in The Lord of the Rings 
                  
                  Firefoot, horse owned by �omer in The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien 
                  
                  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
                  
                  The Golden Ass, 2nd century AD Roman novel in Latin. 
                  
                  Hasufel, Aragorn's horse in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings 
                  
                  Hwin, from The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis 
                  
                  Captain Jinks' horse, of the Horse Marines, fed on corn and beans in the nursery rhyme 
                  
                  Lark, from The Berserker's Horse by Lisa Maxwell 
                  
                  Misty of Chincoteague, a real pony made famous by Marguerite Henry's children's book
                  
                  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 Liu Bu and Guan Yu in the Chinese epic Romance of Three Kingdoms 
                  
                  �arac or Sharkolia, horse of Prince Marko 
                  
                  Roheryn, horse owned by Aragorn in J. R. R. Tolkien'sThe Lord of the Rings 
                  
                  Satan, from The Black Stallion seriesShadowfax, Gandalf's horse from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien 
                  
                  Sharp-ears, horse owned by Merry Brandybuck from The Lord of the Rings 
                  
                  Silver Blaze, eponymous hero of a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan DoyleSnowmane, horse owned by King Th�oden from The Lord of the Rings 
                  
                  Strider, pony owned by Frodo Baggins from The Lord of the Rings 
                  
                  Stybba, pony owned by Merry Brandybuck of The Lord of the Rings 
                  
                  Swish-tail, pony owned by Merry Brandybuck of The Lord of the Rings 
                  
                  White-socks, pony owned by Merry Brandybuck of The Lord of the Rings 
                  
                  Windfola, horse of Dernhelm ridden by �owyn from The Lord of the Rings 
                  
                  Wise-nose, pony owned by Merry Brandybuck of The Lord of the Rings  |  
            
            
              
                |  HORSES IN TELEVISION |  
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                    Black Beauty from The Adventures of Black Beauty, loosely based on the novelChampion the Wonder Horse, eponymous hero of a 1950s series the  Clydesdales of the Budweiser beer commercials Duncan, also known as  Furious D, from The
                      Simpson'sEdmund, Aunt Manya's imaginary pony, from Seinfeld Mr. Ed, from the TV show of that name Esquilax, in The Simpson's Fury, the black stallion of the 1950s TV series of the same name Hercules, Steptoe and Son's horse Pokey, of The Gumby Show Pony Puff Princess, Dee Dee's idol in Dexter's Laboratory Princess, Lisa's horse in The Simpson's Quick Draw McGraw, of Hanna-Barbera's cartoon series Scout, Tonto's horse Silver, the Lone Ranger's horse Tornado, Zorro's horse Eponymous White Horses in the Yugoslav children's
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                |  HORSES IN SONG |  
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                    Eponymous Chestnut Mare in the song by The Byrds Eponymous Horse with No Name in the song by America Feitlebaum the racehorse who always finishes first (even in a car race) in songs by DoodlesWeaver (performed with Spike Jones and his City Slickers) The Horse - title of instrumental 1968 rock song by Cliff Nobles and Co. "Horses" by Patti Smith Mac, in the Mason Profitt song "Two Hangmen" "My Lovely Horse", a fictional Eurovision Song Contest entry"On Horseback", coda to  Ommadawn by Mike Oldfield Trigger, pulled the fastest milkcart in the West in the Benny Hill song "Ernie"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 (based on a real horse called Zanthus)  |  |  
            
            
              
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