Your favourite fictional horses

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I was torn between Sailor and The Maltese Cat.

Strange list though, I hadn't heard of most of them and there were a lot of more obvious horses missing.
 
Or you could just go and read our feature
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I can't remember a 'Sailer' in riders.

Gonna have to re-read it now.........

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He was the one bought for meat money at a market, won olympic silver and then died
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Sailor is the one that dropped dead in the ring when the mud was really heavy. I remember crying the first time I read it, I didn't really like the horse that much though
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I picked Shadowfax, been trying to teach my Arab to come running when I whistle but it just isn't working
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Interesting suggestion but the feature was specifically about fictional horses in literature, and obviously Seabiscuit was a real horse, even if the film about his achievements may have tended towards fiction at times.
 
I went for Shadowfax. I loved the way Tolkien portrayed him in his books and I just had the most amazing images of what the horse would be like. FWIW I loved the horse that played him in the films, he was stunning.

I was also torn between BB - although I loved Merrylegs and Ginger! The Pie and Thowra. The Silver Brumby stories were just awesome.
 
Of those listed, The Maltese Cat. I love that story and it reduces me to tears every time.
Otherwise: Thowra, Shantih, The Black Stallion, and especially the lovely dun event horse in a book i read as a child (i thought it was called The Perfect Horse, could be wrong though). The horse in International Velvet (is he coloured? can't recall) is right up there too.
 
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The Perfect Horse

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Yes, read this book too. Horse was absolutely perfect - and jumped over a child at one point to avoid killing it, I think I remember.

Didn't it then have a terrible fright that totally knocked it's confidence????
 
Black Boy from the Jill books - well he could jump so high!
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he black stallion, shantih I thought was a bit weak, preferred bramble or whatever their pony was called in the books
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Black beauty is too sad, and still can't read that bit in Riders with Sailor dying - makes me cry
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Black Boy from the Jill books - well he could jump so high!
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he black stallion, shantih I thought was a bit weak, preferred bramble or whatever their pony was called in the books
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Black beauty is too sad, and still can't read that bit in Riders with Sailor dying - makes me cry
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I preferred Bramble too
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The dun in The Perfect Horse was called Minos. I liked Rosina Copper from 'Rosina Copper' by Kitty Barnes.
Also the Impossible Horse, but I can't remember his name.....was he Benedictine?
 
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FWIW I loved the horse that played him in the films, he was stunning.



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In the film the horse was a gelding and a stallion and I'm sure a mare in some scene's
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they were all beautiful horses and made me want a non Arab for the first time!
 
It has to be Black Beauty. This story is so well written especially considering the period it was written in.
Itso highlights how I imagine horses react and their emotions to how they are treated and how "fashions" (e.g. in this case the bearing reins) can affect horses.
Black Beauty "tells" the story so well. Wish it was a real horse and was mine!
 
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