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Recent Examples of quarter horse
Rancher Rick Plummer, whose family raises quarter horses, has sued over the city's annexation of land neighboring his property for the data center.
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Bracey Harris,
NBC news,
25 Mar. 2026
The organization lacks jurisdiction over quarter horses, such as Js on Fire, or other racing breeds, which are instead regulated by state commissions that operate under reciprocal enforcement agreements but do not uniformly adopt testing thresholds or methods.
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Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
21 Jan. 2026
In mid-December, Jett, an appendix quarter horse, was battling a fever and had been eating and drinking minimally.
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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.
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Mike Barnes,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for quarter horse
Bracey Harris,
NBC news,
25 Mar. 2026
The organization lacks jurisdiction over quarter horses, such as Js on Fire, or other racing breeds, which are instead regulated by state commissions that operate under reciprocal enforcement agreements but do not uniformly adopt testing thresholds or methods.
—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
21 Jan. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarter horse
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Along with the thousands of cows, the property is home to 180 bulls, 7,500 yearlings, and 130 saddle horses.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Carter further complicates things in last week’s episode, when he drunkly tears an animal mount off the wall during Oreana’s grandmother’s big party at the 10-Petal Ranch.
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Cerebras is, however, facing pressure to open more data centers, as are cloud infrastructure providers, while public opposition mounts and permitting processes can drag on.
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Here, a pony ant – most commonly known as a green-head ant (Rhytidoponera metallica), native to Australia, is experiencing the worst day of its life.
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And, in season 3, rookie Faith Ward was approved to wear a fashion pony.
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Purchasing a racehorse often required hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars, along with ongoing training, veterinary, and management expenses.
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Eighteen racehorses were inside the barn when the fire broke out.
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Strange but true; there could be a little more life in this old warhorse yet.
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Perhaps most notably, the annual opera program will divert from the Pacific Symphony’s traditional Verdi and Puccini Italian operatic warhorses.
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Some campaigns mix traditional ad films with sponsorship hacks, platform plays, and one piece of kit design that turned a referee’s uniform into a punchline.
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The first swing was a powerful uppercut, the type of grown-man hack synonymous with no-doubters and moonshots.
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Osprey Poco Plus Child Carrier for $240 ($80 off) Parent or packhorse?
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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.
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“Quarter horse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarter%20horse. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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