Racetrack runners

Usage examples of horses.

Shamesey riders, camp-boss Lyle Wesson among them, hearing the disturbance among the horses, deserted their tables in the Gate Tavern and gathered on the encircling porch.

Men and horses had breaking points, and the High Wild, when a man or a horse grew careless, always won.

It was campfire stories, it was ghost tales around the hostel fires in deep winter: other riders had objected just to the telling of the story with the horses at hand.

Stuart held their horses still, and Danny felt a terrible, smothering fear, so vivid it became his own, and made his heart race.

Constant, now, came the erotic urges of horses heading into winter rut: sex and rivalry and anger.

He noticed how the footprints in that dust were different, the town-made boots, and the ones more individual, borderers, the sharp, tri-partite hoofprints of the horses under and over them.

Cloud knew, the rest of the horses knew, and the boss-man knew, so the whole camp had to know.

He tried not to think that: the horses might betray anything he thought, though he got none of the expected catcalls and heckling from the junior bystanders.

Danny just kept limping ahead, in the tracks of horses nice enough to carry their riders.

Not likely, unless Cloud was getting not the scent but the desire of the horses for humans.

Shamesey hostels, where riders and horses lived in such muddy, smelly, close quarters.

Cloud sent an uncomfortable hostility, daring the Westmans or their horses to stop anything Cloud wanted.

Cloud moved here and there on the track, generally annoying the three other horses, while Jonas and the others pointedly ignored his presence.

The other horses were trying to be peaceful, Danny thought: they seemed to realize that Cloud was excited about the mountains and were forgiving of his behavior.

But the other riders were trying to calm the ambient and keep the horses apart.