Legendary Horse Pictures

The sad death of Hickstead has had me thinking about some other famous and legendary horses from history.

This site has recently started a new feature on their site and facebook page highlighting a few famous horses and showing images, breeding information and some biographical information, they are calling the feature legendary horses, they have a picture album which you can view and link to the relevant pages on the website.

Others I have though of are Desert Orchid, 

Desert Orchid (April 11, 1979 – November 13, 2006), affectionately known as Dessie, was an English racehorse. The gallant grey achieved iconic status within National Hunt racing, where he was much loved by supporters for his front-running attacking style, iron will and extreme versatility. He was rated the fifth best National Hunt horse of all time by Timeform.

Hedgehunter (born 25 January 1996) is an Irish race horse, who won the 2005 Grand National steeplechase, ridden by Ruby Walsh and trained by Willie Mullins. He had fallen at the final fence the previous year when well placed. He then finished second in 2006 to Numbersixvalverde. He also finished second in the 2006 Cheltenham Gold Cup to War of Attrition.

The horse is owned by Lancashire millionaire Trevor Hemmings who also owns Blackpool Tower.

Can you think of any more??