Throughout history, there have been many famous horses, just like cats or dogs. However, if you ask someone about those horses they may not know to give you more than one or two names.
If you are a horse lover, today we want to talk about several of them, famous horses in history, both in mythology and in racing, in literature... How many will you recognize?
Pegaso
Pegasus is one of the best known famous horses in the world. And although they currently do not exist, nor do we know if it is something "real", it is part of Greek mythology. Specifically, the horse was owned by Zeus and had the peculiar characteristics of having wings.
According to his story, Pegasus was born when Perseus cut off Medusa's head.. When blood began to flow, a horse of an immaculate white color was born, elegant and with a regal bearing. During his early years, as a foal, he spent his time running and flying around Olympus, next to the gods.
He was tamed and ridden by Bellerophon, a hero with whom he lived great adventures and they blended perfectly. Until Bellerophon succumbed to power and wanted to force Pegasus to take him to Olympus in order to become a god. At that moment, Pegasus threw him to the ground and left. For his part, Bellerophon was punished by not being able to ride any other horse and always remain on earth.
Bucephalus
This rare name belongs to the horse of Alexander the Great. Its translation is "bull's head" and it is that the horse was one of the bravest that existed at that time. But he had a problem: he was afraid of his own shadow. Thus, he managed to tame the beast, something that many thought would be impossible.
Famous Horses: Incitato
Incitato was the horse of Emperor Caligula. In fact, he loved it enough to build his horse a marble stables and ivory stalls that only that horse could use.
The story did not finish there. At the time the horse lived, he had a complete villa, with gardens and everything, just for his enjoyment, with 18 servants for the horse. And it was that it was his favorite, and everything was little for him.
rocinante
Surely you have read Rocinante and the first thing that has come to mind is Don Quixote. Well, you have not gone wrong, since Rocinante is Don Quixote's horse, a steed with some bad tempers (as you know, Sancho Panza didn't like him too much).
Secretariat
Secretariat's story is one you can find on film, as her life has been adapted for the big screen. But who was Secretariat? It is about a horse that achieved an incredible feat: the record for the Big Three in the 1973 Triple Crown.
It is said that this horse had a unique heart, so big that it weighed 10 kilos, when the normal thing for a horse is that it does not weigh more than 5.
Seabiscuit
Many times we look down on animals and people because we think that they are not going to be useful for anything, or that they are not going to achieve anything in life. And yet, in the case of Seabiscuit, he knew how to show that this was not the case.
In his time, the horse was a "normal" one, of which nothing was expected. And yet, and despite a serious injury to the ligaments in his foreleg, he was a great champion and an emblem of the United States at the time of the Great Depression due to his struggle and overcoming.
Famous Horses: Man O'War
We're not going to drop the Seabiscuit thing just yet, because you have to know that Man O'War was the grandfather of this one. And why are we talking about him? Well, because he is a racehorse that was present in 21 of them. Do you know how many he won? twenty.
He was so famous that, when he retired from competition, thousands of people came to see him to meet the most powerful horse in the races.
Famous horses: Babieca
Babieca was the mare of El Cid, so famous now for the Amazon Prime series. According to the story, the Cid, when he was little, was taken by his stepfather to the stables of a monastery where he asked him to choose a horse.
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This He decided to keep the ugliest and least thing in the monastery, a mare. The stepfather warned the Cid that this horse was "a Babieca", that is, a "good for nothing", but the Cid remained faithful to his decision and the mare showed that they were not as useless as they had initially crossed out. And it is that, sometimes, a good physique is not enough, you also have to have spirit.
The Trojan horse
We admit it, the Trojan horse was not really an animal, a living being, but a ruse for the Greek soldiers with which they managed to conquer Troy. And it is that it is a huge horse figure that was built in wood and was offered to the Trojans as a gift. These, seeing the impressive carving, They put the horse into the city without knowing that, inside it, were Greek soldiers.
Artax
Maybe that name doesn't tell you much, or maybe it does. But if we accompany this with the title "The Neverending Story", things change, right? Its about Atreyu horse, a steed to which one takes a special affection, and his "death" was one of the saddest in history.
Luckily, in the end everything works out.
Black beauty
That name is the story of a horse known throughout the world. It is a film in which they tell us the life of a horse from birth until almost the end of his days. In that time, he lives dozens of adventures with the different owners that touch him, some better and others worse.
Famous Horses: Tornado and Silver
Other of the famous horses that you surely remember is Tornado, the horse of El Zorro. A black steed like the mask and suit of this hero, with very long and shiny mane.
In the case of Silver, this was the horse from The Lone Ranger, but in this case of a pristine white color that, like the previous one, also fought the bad guys.
So, you have two "heroes" who helped their "humans" save damsels and put bad guys in trouble.