Top 11 cars named after horses, which is your favorite?

In anticipation of the Preakness Stakes, the Triple Crown horse race scheduled for May 15 at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, we’ve put together a list of horse-themed cars. Vote for your favorite in our poll at the bottom of the article.

Ford Mustang

You can’t put together a list of horse-named cars and not feature the Mustang – the longest-running production run of an original pony car in existence.

There are two theories on how the Mustang got its name:

• Robert J. Eggert, Ford’s division market research manager in the early 1960s, loved American Quarterhorse breeds. His wife gifted him a book titled The Mustangs by J. Frank Dobie that inspired the pony car’s name.
• Ford’s executive stylist at the time, Pres…