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Breehy-hinny-brinny-hoohy-hah (better known as Bree) was a Narnian Talking Horse. He was well known for his and Shasta's escape from Calormen.

Biography
"Kidnapped, or stolen, or captured - whichever you like to call it. My mother warned me not to range the Southern slopes, into Archenland and beyond, but I wouldn't heed her. And by the Lion's Mane I have paid for my folly. All these years I have been a slave to humans, hiding my true nature and pretending to be dumb and witless like their horses."

- Bree

When he was just a foal, Bree was abducted from Narnia when he strayed too far into the southern slopes. He hid his identity as a Talking Horse and was eventually sold to Anradin, a Calormene Tarkaan. Anradin rode Bree out to war many times, and Bree was treated well because of his value as a battle charger. However, Bree never stopped trying to formulate an escape back to his homeland.

One night, while on a journey, his master stops to seek hospitality at the cottage of Arsheesh. While spending the night in Bree's poor makeshift stable, a boy named Shasta who lives with Arsheesh overhears Arsheesh negotiating with Anradin to sell Shasta as a slave. Seeing his chance for escape, Bree reveals his identity as a Talking Horse to the boy and talks him into escaping north with him to Narnia. Shasta quickly agrees, and they set out that night. To decieve Anradin and Arsheesh, Bree creates a decoy track pointing south. They travel north for several weeks. One night they are attacked by a lion, at which point Bree admitted to Shasta his terror of lions. While fleeing from the lion, the two met Aravis, a high-born Tarkheena escaping an arranged marriage, and another Talking Horse named Hwin. Since both are fleeing to Narnia, the two pairs of refugees agree to travel together.

While they are traveling through the capital city Tashbaan in disguise, Shasta is mistaken temporarily for Prince Corin of Archenland, who was visiting Calormen under the care of a Narnian delegation headed by Queen Susan and King Edmund. Meanwhile, Aravis sneaks into the Tisroc's palace to get help from her friend Lasaraleen, accidentally overhears the plans of Prince Rabadash to invade Archenland and abduct Queen Susan, and is almost caught by her would-be husband, Grand Vizier Ahoshta. With Lasaraleen's help, Aravis, Bree, and Hwin are able to get through Tashbaan and regroup at the Tombs of the Ancient Kings, where they rejoin with Shasta, who managed to escape the Narnian delegation when he met up with the real Prince Corin.

Bree and his friends decide to ride to Anvard in Archenland to warn King Lune about the invasion. They complete a harrowing three-day nonstop journey across the Great Desert just ahead of Rabadash's invasion force. They arrive at the Winding Arrow River and fall asleep soon after. The following morning, realizing they have lost too much time, they are forced to start out again at a gallop, pursued by Rabadash's army. When they on the verge of collapse, a lion attacks them, forcing them on out of sheer terror, and wounds Aravis. They meet the Hermit of the Southern March, who urges Shasta on alone, leaving an utterly exhausted Bree and Hwin behind along with a badly injured Aravis.

While Shasta is meeting up with King Lune and fighting at Anvard, Bree encounters Aslan at last, who reveals Himself to be the lion that has chased them all the way through Calormen, and has his know-it-all pride taken down a notch by the Hermit, who reminds him that although he was unique among the dumb beasts of Calormen, he would be "nobody very special in Narnia". The Hermit is able to see the events of the battle of Anvard from afar and relates all the happenings to the Horses and Aravis as they occur. Shasta—now revealed to be the long-lost Prince Cor and rightful heir to the thrown of Archenland—returns and collects Bree, Hwin, and Aravis from the Hermit's, and after the conflict with Archenland is resolved, the Horses continue on to Narnia. Little is known about Bree's later life, save that he eventually married, lived to a ripe old age, and frequently visited Cor and Aravis at Anvard.

Personality
Bree is portrayed as rather conceited, and the less sensible of the two Talking Horses. He resists having his tail cut short for their Tashbaan disguise because it ruins his warhorse image, and he frequently brags about his experience in the many wars of Calormen. At one point Hwin compares Bree's vanity to Lasaraleen's, although he is highly insulted by this. Bree is at first critical of Shasta, sometimes deriding him for his ignorance despite his genuine affection for and protectiveness of the boy, while he has no problem chatting with the aristocratic and even more snobbish Aravis. He becomes somewhat more down-to-earth after his encounter with Aslan. For all his posh, Bree can be very insecure, reluctantly voicing his worry that he will be rejected by his fellow Talking Horses if they see him rolling in the grass. For the most part Bree is very brave, his only demonstrated phobia being lions. Bree is also somewhat nostalgic and patriotic, singing the praises of Narnia over Calormen and even Archenland, and frequently exclaiming, "Narnia and the North!"