Horsebreaker Star is the third solo album by Grant McLennan, a member of the Go-Betweens.

McLennan recorded the album in Athens, Georgia, with American musicians.

McLennan toured the US, Europe and Australia in 1995 to promote the album, playing with musicians including Anna Burley and Dave Folley from the Killjoys, and Phil Kakulas from Blackeyed Susans.

His American performances received highly favourable reviews from The New York Times and Rolling Stone, which called McLennan "one of the world's great songwriters".

The single-disc American release stripped off six songs — "Late Afternoon in Early August" and "Ballad of Easy Rider" from the first disc and "Do Your Own Thing" through "Head Over Heels" from the second — while adding on "Lighting Fires" from Fireboy.