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With 18 minutes and 34 seconds on the clock here, Leicester had three points safely secured and they were cantering to victory.

From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2019

The next moment they were cantering side by side, and never drew rein till they reached the cross-roads.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various

A few minutes later the three horsemen were cantering over the plain.

From The Settler and the Savage by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Half-a-dozen sepoys with matchlocks, to which were attached red flags, slung over their shoulders, were cantering gaily up the hillside only a few yards in front of us.

From In the Forbidden Land by Landor, Arnold Henry Savage

The three chiefs named had halted their band, and, attended by a couple of warriors displaying dingy white rags on their lance-points, were cantering down towards the corral.

From Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West by Mitford, Bertram