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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarter horse
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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
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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 model met the cowboy, who trains in Weatherford for cutting horse events, at a horse show.—
Tasha Tsiaperas,
Axios,
14 Feb. 2025
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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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He is survived by his family, a collection of trophy big-game mounts, and generations of bulls in Colorado’s West Elk Wilderness who knew him by bugle, chuckle, and mew.—
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
19 Feb. 2025
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At nearly 160 pounds without its legs attached, this monster is too heavy for most wall mounts to support.—
Clint Davis,
People.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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As for bags, the Script logo shopper was made in an even lighter, more relaxed shopping bag in an allover calfskin leather, suede or pony skin, while the Flap Bag reinterpreted a classic camera bag in smooth calfskin leather.—
Stephen Garner,
WWD,
3 Mar. 2025
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That’s the Snow Polo World Cup St. Moritz, which in January 2025 celebrated its 40th anniversary, bringing together over 100 of the world’s top polo ponies and 25,000 spectators.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
26 Feb. 2025
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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
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The grant allowed Ride Above Disability to purchase a 9-year-old retired racehorse named Remi, who had raced at Los Alamitos Race Course.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2025
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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
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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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Through the first four months of 2024, Web3 projects had already lost over $401 million to various hacks and attacks.—
Dmitry Mishunin,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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Experts universally agree that AI security focuses on protecting models from external threats like hacks, data breaches and model poisoning.—
Sam Sabin,
Axios,
28 Feb. 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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“Quarter horse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarter%20horse. Accessed 11 Mar. 2025.
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