Thesaurus results for QUARTER HORSE

quarter horse

noun

Definition of quarter horse

as in saddle horse

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Recent Examples of quarter horse Their connection traced back to Lukas’ days training quarter horses in New Mexico before getting into thoroughbreds and becoming one of the faces of the sport. — Stephen Whyno, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2026 Rancher Rick Plummer, whose family raises quarter horses, has sued over the city's annexation of land neighboring his property for the data center. — Bracey Harris, NBC news, 25 Mar. 2026 In mid-December, Jett, an appendix quarter horse, was battling a fever and had been eating and drinking minimally. — Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2026 After Robert Mitchum’s death in July 1997 at age 79, Jim continued to breed racing quarter horses at his ranch in Skull Valley. — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for quarter horse

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Noun

Because the mother cow was severely engorged, the calf wouldn’t have been able to nurse, prompting Ladd and the ranch hands to saddle horses, ride out into the snow, rope the cow, and milk her.

— Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 2 Feb. 2026
Along with the thousands of cows, the property is home to 180 bulls, 7,500 yearlings, and 130 saddle horses.

— Tori Latham, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2025

Definition of saddle horse

Noun

Tickets are now on sale for the event that will bring together celebrities and skilled cutting horse trainers to raise funds for the medical center.

— Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2026
Yellowstone actor and cutting horse trainer Jake Ream will make his directorial debut on the second picture on the Perlino Pictures slate, The Color of Winter, which is due to film in Utah in the new year.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2025

Definition of cutting horse

Noun

When her grandparents once ran a restaurant and lived in the massive apartment above it, her grandmother kept a row of personalized bunnies on top of a roughly 7-foot pony wall, with one representing each family member.

— Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026
For young children, there are pony rides, crafts and pony parties, or the Cupcake Express, a riding and grooming session with the resort’s miniature horse, Cupcake.

— Katie Riley, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of pony

Noun

The Queen tends to sport the brooch during equine events to honor King Edward VII and his legendary Thoroughbred racehorse that won the Epsom Derby in 1909.

— Amina Ayoud, Footwear News, 22 Aug. 2026
People still can pool together resources with friends to buy a racehorse for $10,000 and see what happens.

— Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026

Definition of racehorse

Noun

After traveling a mile or two, the packhorses settled down, pretty much satisfied with their places.

— Dolores Brown, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
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