White horse

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White horse or whitehorse may refer to:

White equines

• White (horse), types of horses that are white
  • Dominant white, the genetic mechanism that produces horses born white or mostly white
  • Gray (horse), most common white horse hair coat color
  • Lethal white syndrome, a fatal genetic condition
  • Sabino horse, a genetic mechanism that sometimes produces a horse that is white from birth

Mythology and symbolism

• White horse (mythology)
• White Horse of Hanover, a military cap badge, first granted by King George in 1715 to the 101st Grenadiers
• White horse of Kent, a heraldic symbol

People

• White Horse (chief), died 1892, a chief of the Kiowa nation
• Logan Fontenelle, 1825–1855, a.k.a. Chief White Horse, a chief of the Omaha nation
• Chief White Horse (a.k.a. Whitehorse), Native American actor; portrayed Geronimo in Stagecoach (1939 film)

Places

Cities, villages, towns

• Manderson-White Horse Creek, South Dakota, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, United States
• White Horse, California, United States
• White Horse, New Jersey, United States
• White Horse, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States
• Whitehorse, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States
• White Horse, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
• White Horse, South Dakota, United States
• Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England
• Whitehorse, South Dakota, Dewey County, South Dakota, United States
• City of Whitehorse, Victoria, Australia
• Whitehorse, Yukon, capital city of Yukon, Canada
  • Whitehorse (electoral district), former electoral district

Geography, landscape and architecture

• White Horse Bluff (Whitehorse Bluffs), volcano in British Columbia, Canada
• White Horse Bridge, Wembley, England
• White Horse Mountains, Harney County, Oregon, USA
• White Horse Stone, two megaliths near Aylesford, Kent, England
• White Horse Tavern (disambiguation)
• White Horse Temple, the first Buddhist temple in China

Hill figures

A hill figure is a large visual representation created by cutting into a steep hillside and revealing the underlying geology.

• Alton Barnes White Horse, near Devizes, Wiltshire, England
• Cherhill White Horse, near Calne, Wiltshire, England
• Devizes White Horse, Wiltshire, England
• Folkestone White Horse, Folkestone, Kent, England
• Kilburn White Horse, near Kilburn, North Yorkshire, England
• Osmington White Horse, near Osmington, Dorset, England
• Pewsey White Horse, near Pewsey, Wiltshire, England
• Uffington White Horse, Oxfordshire, England
• Waimate White Horse, Waimate, New Zealand
• Westbury White Horse, Wiltshire, England

Arts and entertainment

Literature

• The Ballad of the White Horse, a poem by G.K. Chesterton
• White Horse Dialogue, a philosophical dialogue by Gongsun Longzi
• The White Horse in the Apocalypse (1758), a book by Emanuel Swedenborg

Music

• White Horse (album), a 1974 album by Michael Omartian
• Whitehorse (band), a Canadian folk rock band
• Whitehorse (album), a 2011 album by Whitehorse
• "Ride a White Horse", a 2005 song by Goldfrapp
• "White Horse" (Laid Back song), a 1983 song by Laid Back
• "White Horse" (Taylor Swift song), a 2008 song by Taylor Swift
• "White Horse" (Jessica 6 song), a 2011 song by Jessica 6
• "White Horse", a 1993 song by Kilo Ali
• "White Horse", a 2008 song by Sarah McLeod

Statues

• The White Horse at Ebbsfleet, Kent, England, a proposed gigantic sculpture

Theatre and screen

• White Horse (film), a 2008 documentary film by Maryann DeLeo
• The White Horse (series), a 1993 Russian television series
• The White Horses, a 1960s television series, which had a theme tune of the same name sung by Jacky

Transportation

• HMCS Whitehorse, a ship of the Canadian Forces
• White Horse, one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
• U.S. Route 30 in New Jersey, locally known as the White Horse Pike

Other

• White horses, wind-driven waves crowned with white foam in the sea or in other bodies of water; see wind wave
• White Horse Prophecy, a Mormon prophecy
• White Horse (military), nickname for the South Korean army's 9th Infantry Division
• White Horse (whisky), blended in Scotland, UK
• 1923 FA Cup Final, known as the White Horse Final, a football match
• Knight (chess), sometimes called white horse, a piece in the game of chess

See also

• The White Horse Inn (disambiguation)
• White knight (disambiguation)
• When a white horse is not a horse, a paradox in Chinese philosophy