With names like Minty, Cherries Jubilee and Quarterback these brightly colored ponies had me hooked! I still have the entire TV series on DVD as well as their feature length film. My mom recently went through and threw away the more beat up ponies but I managed to throw enough of a fit for her to save my favorites including my boy pony Quarterback! He loves football and is blue! How can you go wrong?

9. The Budweiser Clydesdales

Ok so I admit that this one is not really so much from my youth but still worth mentioning! First introduced to the public in 1933 as a way to celebrate the repeal of prohibition August A. Busch, Jr. presented his father with a new hitch and team. That team pulled the first legal beer from the St. Louis Brewery into down town!
So with that kind of history how can you not smile at a group of huge Clydesdales playing football in the snow on a super bowl commercial? These gentle giants are amazing! I have been lucky enough to visit them at their home in Sea World (in both Florida and San Diego). Even though they are HUGE I still want to run up giggling and hug each one of them around the neck! YAY Clydesdales!

8.  The Famous Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed was one of the first horses I really feel in love with! My father really loves his TV and when my mother wasn’t around he and I would watch reruns of Mr. Ed on Nick at Night. The stars of the show are Mister Ed, an intelligent palomino horse who could talk ("played" by gelding Bamboo Harvester and voiced by Allan Lane), and his owner, an eccentric and enormously klutzy architect named Wilbur Post (portrayed by Alan Young). Much of the program's humor stemmed from the fact Mister Ed would speak only to Wilbur, as well as Ed's notoriety as a troublemaker. Even though Mr. Ed was only talking because of the peanut butter on the roof of his mouth I still pictured the hours of conversation when my dad finally bought him for me. Ahhh Mr. Ed

7. Phar Lap

This one speaks for himself! This Australian born race horse captured the nation’s attention during the Great Depression. In the four years of his racing career, Phar Lap won 37 of 51 races he entered, including the Melbourne Cup in 1930 with 9 st 12 lb (61.5 kg, or 138 lbs).[18] In that year and 1931, he won 14 races in a row. From his win as a three-year-old in the VRC St. Leger Stakes until his final race in Mexico, Phar Lap won 32 of 35 races. In the three races that he did not win, he ran second on two occasions, beaten by a short head and a neck, and in the 1931 Melbourne Cup he finished eighth when carrying 10 st 10 lb (68 kg).  His death was a huge shock to race fans and many people speculated that he was poisoned to even racing odds for mob bookies.  Phar Lap himself is located now in the Melbourne museum. 

6. Go Man Go

He was an American Quarter Horse stallion and race horse. He was named World Champion Quarter Running Horse three times in a row, one of only two horses to achieve that distinction. Go Man Go was considered to be of difficult temperament. While waiting in the starting gate for his very first race, he threw his jockey, broke down the gate, and ran alone around the track; he was eventually caught and went on to win the race. During his five years of competition before he was retired from racing in 1960, he had 27 wins and brought earnings of more than $86,000 ($665,907 as of 2010).
He is my first quarter horse love! The second horse I purchased on my own has Go Man Go bloodlines.  Another amazing race horse!

5. Easy Jet Too

My current horse is a own son of Easy Jet Too! He of course became my new obsession!
Easy Jet Too came onto the paint racing scene in 1983. Proclaimed by many to be one of Paint racing’s greatest sires, the bay tobiano son of Easy Jet AQHA also proved himself one of the breed’s greatest runners. His first start as a 2-year-old was challenging for the colt, but he won all nine of his remaining races. Plus he’s pretty! That’s right! I said it!

4. COMANCHE

At the Battle of Little Big Horn the only survivor was the horse of Captain Miles Keogh. Comanche was found on the battlefield three days after the fight with arrows sticking in him. He was taken to Bismarck and nursed back to health. It was decided never to ride him again and he was used only in parades after that.  His body is currently being displayed at University of Kansas Natural History Museum. With perseverance like that he had to make my list!

3. Starlite

Starlite is Rainbow Brite's talking horse whom she rides as he gallops across rainbows. He calls himself "the most magnificent horse in the universe." He is white with a yellow star on his forehead, and his mane and tail are rainbow-colored. He was another one that I dreamed of riding across the sky! Plus any horse that can say he’s the most magnificent should be on my list!

2. Secretariat

This race horse was AMAZING! This 16.2 hand Triple Crown winner took the Belemont Stakes by 31 lenghts a record that still stands today! Altogether, Secretariat won 16 of his 21 career races, with three seconds and one third, for in-the-money finishes in 20 of 21 starts, and total earnings of $1,316,808. He was named athlete of the year and horse of the year numerous times and the first animal inducted into the Kentucky Athlete hall of fame.  When Secretariat died the necropsy showed that his heart was estimated to weigh 22 pounds and was in perfect condition at the time of his death. He was mourned by millions and was buried at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky. It’s no wonder this horse made my list!

1. Gills Bay Boy (foaled 1977), nicknamed "Scamper”.

Barrel racer Charmayne James rode Scamper from 1984-1993 in the National Finals Rodeo, with the pair winning the WPRA World Championship ten years in a row, from 1984 through 1993. Since being retired from competition, Scamper is still alive as of 2010.

Charmayne James and her father bought Scamper from a feed lot when James was 12. He was given the name "Scamper" before James got his registration papers. Initially the horse was prone to buck at the lope. Ultimately, the pair qualified for the NFR finals in barrel racing for the first time when James was 14, and they won the event even though Scamper's bridle broke during one of their runs. The two ended up winning the WPRA World Championship every year from 1984-1993. After a record 10 straight WPRA World Championships he was semi-retired from competition before being fully retired a few years later.

This horse is amazing! I hope one day that my horse gets his own web page and feed and other stuff!