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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
Pan Zareta started 151 times with 76 wins and is considered to be the "winningest female Thoroughbred in American history". [115] Catherina (1830, by Whisker) started in 176 races and won 79 of them, many over long distances, including the Manchester Cup, Tradesmen's Cup, and Heaton Park's King's Cup.
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. The only horse in American history who in 1968 won ...
Mare Sergeant Yeager's Lady JA Will Stead W. A. Yeager Broodmare Garrett's Miss Pawhuska: 2006 1946 1975 Sorrel Mare Leo: Jenny Dee Jimmie Allred Bill Rowe Racing Go Man Go: 1990 1953 1983 Roan Stallion Top Deck (TB) Lightfoot Sis Very Wise (TB) J. B. Ferguson Racing Goetta: 2007 1961 1978 Bay Mare Go Man Go: Etta Leo Leo: E. L. Gosselin Racing ...
Lexington (March 17, 1850 – July 1, 1875) was a United States Thoroughbred race horse who won six of his seven race starts. Perhaps his greatest fame, however, came as the most successful sire of the second half of the nineteenth century; he was the leading sire in North America 16 times, and broodmare sire of many notable racehorses.
The Horses of Neptune, illustration by Walter Crane, 1893.. Horse symbolism is the study of the representation of the horse in mythology, religion, folklore, art, literature and psychoanalysis as a symbol, in its capacity to designate, to signify an abstract concept, beyond the physical reality of the quadruped animal.
Mares of Diomedes, which fed on human flesh; Pegasus, flying horse of Greek mythology; Phaethon, [14] one of the two immortal steeds of the dawn-goddess Eos; Rhaebus, the horse of Mezentius in Roman myths; Sterope, [14] horse of the sun-god Helios; Trojan Horse; Equuleus, Hippe transformed into a foal (now a constellation)
However, the use of mares by European warriors cannot be discounted from literary references. [41] Mares were the preferred war horse of the Moors. [10] [page needed] They also were preferred by the Mongols. [42] War horses were more expensive than normal riding horses, and destriers the most prized, but figures vary greatly from source to source.