quarter horse

noun

Definition of quarter horsenext
as in saddle horse

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Recent Examples of quarter horse Los Alamitos runs a year-round quarter horse and thoroughbred meeting that is partly made up of lower level thoroughbred horses. — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024 Next October his first set of quarter horses are set to go into futurity, a competition which offers staggering prize money to winners. — Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 19 July 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for quarter horse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarter horse
  1. saddle horse
  2. cutting horse
  3. mount
  4. pony
  5. racehorse
  6. warhorse
  7. hack
  8. packhorse
Noun
  • The farm also had saddle horses, a team of Belgian draft horses that helped haul manure and feed, and plenty of chickens that supplied eggs for those big breakfasts every morning (followed by even larger dinners at noon and suppers in the evenings).
    — Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Definition of saddle horse
Noun
  • It is named after a champion cutting horse and features ostrich vamps, goat quarters and roses stitched into the leather.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The model met the cowboy, who trains in Weatherford for cutting horse events, at a horse show.
    — Tasha Tsiaperas, Axios, 14 Feb. 2025
Definition of cutting horse
Noun
  • The inclusion of the pole mount is actually a very nice improvement over the residential kit, which doesn't offer different mounts in the box, requiring you to purchase one separately.
    — PCMAG, PCMAG, 23 Mar. 2025
  • The steel mount is long-lasting, with an arm that can extend almost 15 inches out.
    — Christopher Murray, Fox News, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of mount
Noun
  • The park’s wild ponies were originally brought here in the 1970s to control forest growth.
    — Casey Barber, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Material play was also in focus, with pony hair leather fashioned in a Bambi print.
    — Lily Templeton, WWD, 12 Mar. 2025
Definition of pony
Noun
  • The prize is named after the King's beloved grandmother Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who avidly followed horse racing and memorably passed the hobby along to her daughter, Queen Elizabeth, who bred, owned and oversaw many racehorses during her lifetime.
    — Janine Henni, People.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Fun fact: The Vanderbilt family once owned Sagamore Farm, and Plank commissioned a mural of the family's racehorse, Native Dancer, in the home.
    — Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 27 Feb. 2025
Definition of racehorse
Noun
  • Going to celebrate the Passover, Jesus chose to enter the city on the back of a colt, in stark contrast to the warhorses and chariots of Roman armies.
    — Lynne Silva-Breen, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Definition of warhorse
Noun
  • Another convenient hack for decreasing airport stress is to wear all of your must-have essentials on your person, rather than stashing them in your backpack or carry-on.
    — Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 21 Mar. 2025
  • That is, until one mom discovered the ultimate hack to get her toddler to eat vegetables.
    — Annabelle Canela, Parents, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of hack
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
Definition of packhorse

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