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cow pony

n. a light saddle horse trained for herding cattle

Usage examples of "cow pony".

For your average longhorn was as likely to charge a man afoot as it was to flee anyone on a cow pony.

There was only a rope around the neck of the wild cow pony she rode.

So the bullet aimed at him with his next step out of the shade missed the small of his back by a whisker to hum on up Central Avenue until it thunked into the rump of a tethered cow pony and caused considerable excitement out front of that one saloon.

So he helped hisself to the cow pony and lit out of town, crowing like a rooster and shooting at the stars.

His mare worked neatly, precisely, gracefully, spinning on her haunches, turning cattle away from the truck with a well-trained cow pony’.

A cowhand, spurs jingling, rode by on a paint cow pony, and the boardwalks were thronged with gamblers, drifters, speculators, and men and women of all sorts and kinds, all with an eye for the main chance.

Like I've always said, I could do any work that could be done from the back of a cow pony.

A hand deft enough to pick a tiny flower without bruising it and strong enough to lift a saddle one-handed and lower it onto a cow pony's back.

The trained cow pony seemingly knows as much about a round-up as his master, and the two, together, form a combination that is invincible in a herd of wild cattle.

Anyone else would have seen a greasy brown fat man with the eyes of a cow pony and jowls which appeared packed full of hickory nuts, gopher fashion.