Fictional horses

thumb|Don Quixote (Kennedy Center sculpture)|Don Quixote, a 1976 statue by Aurelio Teno exhibited in Washington, D.C., portrays Rocinante and Don Quixote as emerging from a rock ready for battle

In the Persian national epic Shahnameh by the poet Ferdowsi, Rakhsh (, meaning "luminous") is the stallion of the protagonist Rostam.

"Kholstomer" (), also translated as "Strider", is a novella by Leo Tolstoy that has been referred to as "one of the most striking stories in Russian literature". It was started in 1863 and left unfinished until 1886, when it was reworked and published as "Kholstomer: The Story of a Horse". The story exploits the technique of defamiliarization by adopting the perspective of a horse to expose some of the irrationalities of human conventions.

Lucky Luke's horse

Houyhnhnms are a fictional race of intelligent horses described in the last part of Jonathan Swift's satirical 1726 novel ''Gulliver's Travels''. The name is pronounced either or . Swift apparently intended all words of the Houyhnhnm language to echo the neighing of horses.

fictional horse from J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium

fictional horse with a horn and wings

character in the Chinese novel Journey to the West

fictional character, the male lead horse in The Horse and His Boy (Narnia, book 5)