stock horse
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of stock horse
First recorded in 1860–65
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Her spirits and mouth healed, she performed well a few weeks ago at a local county stock horse competition.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
A bullock-wagon was drawn up on the side of the road, and a lean stock horse, hitched to a post, stood twitching his tail to keep the flies away.
From The Pioneers by Katharine Susannah Prichard
A surer, better stock horse was never ridden, and always ridden by the writer.
From Early Days in North Queensland by Edward Palmer
She looks like an awful old stock horse, don't she?
From The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas by Mary Gaunt
Brown Betty was a thoroughly good stamp of a stock horse, with plenty of quality; while not, perhaps, of the class of Monarch and Bobs, she was by no means a mount to be despised.
From Mates at Billabong by Mary Grant Bruce
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