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Recent Examples of quarter horse
Riding through the festival crowd on horseback to her Saturday evening set on the Great Northern Stage, Ferrell hopped off the quarter horse, immediately strapped on an acoustic guitar and went right into a jam with her band.
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Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2024
Dixon-Simmons and her quarter horse, Penny, took the mail on its last leg from the Discovery Park and arrived in Old Sacramento at 4:27 p.m., completing her 34th year with the National Pony Express Association.
—Vincent Medina, Sacramento Bee, 28 June 2024
Some 20 other quarter horses, along with a donkey and pig, roamed the pens behind the barn and arena.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
Horse cavalries: The lineup of horses in this year’s parade will include quarter horses carrying a platoon-sized unit of soldiers, the world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales and pinto American Saddlebreds drawing a medieval carriage and its riders.
—Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 1 Jan. 2024
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Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2024
Dixon-Simmons and her quarter horse, Penny, took the mail on its last leg from the Discovery Park and arrived in Old Sacramento at 4:27 p.m., completing her 34th year with the National Pony Express Association.
—Vincent Medina, Sacramento Bee, 28 June 2024
Some 20 other quarter horses, along with a donkey and pig, roamed the pens behind the barn and arena.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2024
Horse cavalries: The lineup of horses in this year’s parade will include quarter horses carrying a platoon-sized unit of soldiers, the world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales and pinto American Saddlebreds drawing a medieval carriage and its riders.
—Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 1 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarter horse
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Mackinac Island Carriage Tours, private livery tours, drive-yourself carriages and saddle horses will still be available but will have alternate routes to avoid the Arch Rock.—
Jasmin Barmore,
Detroit Free Press,
2 Sep. 2023
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The Devil was a saddle horse ridden by Maj.—
Chiara Vercellone,
USA TODAY,
19 Nov. 2021
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Her competitive spirit prompted her to try her hand in various events throughout North Texas, including an equestrian and cutting horse competition in January, the Dallas Observer reports.—
Alexis Simmerman,
Austin American-Statesman,
2 May 2024
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The supermodel competed in a few cutting horse events earlier this year, pocketing over $13,000 in winnings.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 July 2024
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As frustration mounts, a once-fringe idea regains traction: secession.—
Dr. Alex Gold,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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The motorized mount features a rechargeable lithium-ion battery that allows for an impressive 10 hours of uninterrupted stargazing.—
Gemma Lavender,
Space.com,
15 Jan. 2025
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This change enabled a new fictional genre to develop: horse-girl fiction, which idealized stories about girls and their ponies.—
Rebecca Scofield / Made by History,
TIME,
21 Jan. 2025
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See the mini pony, Dolly dress-up station, book drive and more.—
Angelica Stabile,
Fox News,
15 Jan. 2025
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An extraordinarily valuable racehorse, alone in his stall one night, was fatally injured.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes,
11 Dec. 2024
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The pair co-owns a 3-year-old racehorse, March of Time, that won for the first time at Santa Anita last week.—
Newsweek,
Newsweek,
3 Jan. 2025
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The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, that warhorse of English traditionalism, is mentioned six times, and his plangent music—invoking a lost, idyllic England; a greener, more pleasant land—could easily be the novel’s soundtrack.—
Charles McGrath,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2024
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At 33, Watt is young enough not to be tired of even the most familiar rock radio warhorses.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
19 Sep. 2024
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The bank said the days-long glitch was not a hack and promised no one’s money was ever in danger.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA TODAY,
22 Jan. 2025
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Gmail and Outlook users don’t escape the attack warnings, and the addition of two-factor authentication bypass hacks just muddies the security waters.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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Osprey Poco Plus Child Carrier for $240 ($80 off) Parent or packhorse?—
Drew Zieff,
Outside Online,
16 July 2024
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In 1811 Charles’s 21-year-old father loaded a white stallion and a packhorse with baskets of Champagne and set off for Moscow, nearly 2,000 miles away.—
Moira Hodgson,
WSJ,
30 Dec. 2021
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