quarter horse

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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. 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 See all Example Sentences for quarter horse 
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Noun
  • 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
  • The Devil was a saddle horse ridden by Maj.
    Chiara Vercellone, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2021
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
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    David Foxley, Architectural Digest, 10 Jan. 2025
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Noun
  • The special edition is meant to be a celebration of American ingenuity and 60 years of racing success for its iconic pony car.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The organization has taken in over 100 animals, including a pony, and are continuing to take in animals for emergency boarding.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • This book that tells the compelling story of world famous racehorse, Alydar and his career, the gruesome details of his mysterious death, and the long process of unearthing of the facts and the shameless greed of those around the horse.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
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Noun
  • Osprey Poco Plus Child Carrier for $240 ($80 off) Parent or packhorse?
    Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 16 July 2024
  • 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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