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Recent Examples of quarter horse
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.
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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
Long known for Hereford cattle and quarter horses, Babbitt Ranches stretches over 700,000 acres of private and leased public land.
—Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
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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
Long known for Hereford cattle and quarter horses, Babbitt Ranches stretches over 700,000 acres of private and leased public land.
—Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 11 Feb. 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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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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In her 50s, Buckley started riding cutting horses, which are trained to separate a cow from its herd.Manuel Mendoza, Dallas News, 10 July 2019
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The aluminum mount is super strong, and attaches to basically anything—a camper, roof rack, your 4Runner’s trunk, or a truck bed’s tie down rails.The Editors, Outside Online, 18 Nov. 2024
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Berger mounts whispered conversations in shadowy hallways, deploys slow-motion sequences backed up by an operatic score, and builds striking tableaus of cardinals warily eyeing one another—elements that are then deliberately paired with hammy, self-aware dialogue.Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2024
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Ventura County Animal Services said 115 horses, five ponies, three donkeys, seven sheep, 33 goats, four mini horses, one cattle, and 20 alpacas are being sheltered Friday as evacuees.Dennis Romero, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2024
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Brown also owns a rabbit and farm animals, including goats, sheep, a donkey and a pony.Ashley Hume, Fox News, 19 Oct. 2024
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One other factor is that there will likely be fewer deaths because the foal crop is in serious decline, meaning fewer racehorses.John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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Among this group of donors are CEOs, lawyers and racehorse owners.Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 28 Oct. 2024
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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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What election narratives are foreign actors pushing? Expect false tales of voters tampering with mail-in ballots, non-citizens casting ballots and hacks of election infrastructure in social media posts.Sam Sabin, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Grimms’ version hacks away at the French tale in other ways.Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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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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“Quarter horse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarter%20horse. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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