black horse
Unexpected competition winner
A black horse is simply a horse with black coloring.
The phrase appears in contexts where color matters—racing forms, breed descriptions, children's songs.
It differs from *dark horse*, which means an unknown competitor who may surprise: She was a dark horse candidate who ended up winning the primary.
- steedSpirited riding horse
- darkAbsence of light
- equineOf the horse family
- stallionIntact male breeding horse
- racehorseEquine bred for speed
surprise winner · mare · nightmare · foal · kelpie · colt · mount · contender · wild card entry · enigma · outsider · underdog · mystery · filly · wildcard · courser · surprise · charger
- horsesmare, mares, stallion, stallions, colt
- equinesmare, stallion, donkey, foal, pony
- apocalypseapocalypse, Armageddon, end times, rapture, tribulation
- Biblical Horses
- Platonic soullogos, charioteer
betting/competition expectations
black horsefavorite
Most liked option
front-runner · frontrunner · sure thing · safe bet · top seed
black, horse, blacker, blackest, blacken, blackened, blackening, blackness, blackish