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List of fictional horses
- Arion, an immortal, extremely swift horse
- Arvak and Alsvid pulled Sol's chariot
- Baku, horse-bodied dream-eaters
- Centaur, part human, part horse
- Dyaus Pita, the Sky Father[?], who appears as a horse
- Embarr was Niamh's horse
- the Mares of Diomedes, which fed on human flesh
- Gandharva, male nature spirits, usually part horse
- Hofvarpnir was Gna's horse
- Pegasus, a winged horse
- the Sileni were half-man, half-horse
- the Trojan Horse
- Skinfaxi was Dagur's horse
- Unicorn
- Binky, ridden by Death in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
- Black Beauty, from Black Beauty[?] by Anna Sewell
- the Black, from a series of 21 books by Walter Farley beginning with The Black Stallion (1941)
- Boxer, from Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Breehy-hinny-brinny-hoohy-hah ("Bree" for short), from The Horse and His Boy[?] by C. S. Lewis
- Many 'Companions', which are human spirits reincarnated in the form of white horses in Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar[?] series of books.
- Concorde, the mount of Sir Lancelot in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (not a real horse, but a page banging coconuts together)
- De Lü[?], the mount of Chinese warlord Liu Bei in the Romance of Three Kingdoms
- 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 by Jonathan Swift
- Lark, from The Berserker's Horse by Lisa Maxwell
- 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
- Satan, from the Black Stallion series
- Shadowfax, from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Šarac, horse of Marko Kraljevic
- Black Beauty from The Adventures of Black Beauty, loosely based on the novel (see above)
- the Clydesdales? of the Budweiser beer commercials
- Edmund, Aunt Manya's imaginary pony, from Seinfeld
- Mr. Ed[?], from the TV show of that name
- Fury[?], the black stallion of the 1950s TV series of the same name
- Pokey, of The Gumby Show
- Silver, the Lone Ranger's horse
- Eponymous White Horses in the Yugoslav childen's series, seen in an English dubbed version in the late 1960s/early 1970s.
- Eponymous Chestnut Mare in the song by The Byrds
- Eponymous Horse with No Name in the song by America
- Stewball, the racehorse in the song of that name
- Feetlebaum the racehorse who always finishes last (even in a car race) in songs by Spike Jones
- "Horses" by Patti Smith
- "On Horseback", coda to Ommadawn by Mike Oldfield
- "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?" by U2
- "Wild Horses" by The Rolling Stones