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  • June 17, 2008 at 1:40 pm nah, belleib or not, I had to go to Ohio to learn how to ride a horse worked inna show that required it. however, did work in a quarter-horse stable as a teenager.

    Determination. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Jack shot out of his parking spot like a spurred quarter-horse, racing up the main street and out of town.

    Marriage At A Price Lee, Miranda 2001

  • So I started racing Patches in little amateur quarter-horse races, and from time to time we even returned with the purse.

    Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994

  • So I started racing Patches in little amateur quarter-horse races, and from time to time we even returned with the purse.

    Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994

  • Altogether it looked as if the quarter-horse business was doing well.

    Chrome Circle Lackey, Mercedes 1994

  • So I started racing Patches in little amateur quarter-horse races, and from time to time we even returned with the purse.

    Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994

  • Altogether it looked as if the quarter-horse business was doing well.

    The Chrome Borne Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • Altogether it looked as if the quarter-horse business was doing well.

    Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • Everything from covering a quarter-horse race down in New Mexico to interviewing Masters and Johnson in St. Louis -- all over town, those two books.

    Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer 1989

  • The captain of the blacks fell upon his face, and I broke and ran like a quarter-horse.

    "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins

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