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/kaʊ pˈoʊnˌi/ Listen

Cow pony

noun

A light saddle horse trained for herding cattle.

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"Cow pony" Quotes from Famous Books

... to bunk down under the chuck wagon for a few hours of sleep, tethered his mount quite securely to a deep-driven stake. Before the cattleman had taken more than a round dozen of winks the black had tested his tether to the limit of his strength. The tether stood the test. A cow pony might have done this much. There he would have stopped. But the black was a Kentucky thoroughbred, blessed with the inherited intelligence of noble sires, some of whom had been household pets. So he investigated the ...

— Horses Nine - Stories of Harness and Saddle • Sewell Ford

... during the earlier hours of the day. He found that good lady in a state of wild excitement and alarm. One of the two outriders who had started with her husband and niece at dawn, was mounted on a dun-colored cow pony, with white face and feet. One of the two troopers sent by Dade to overtake and bring them back, was turning a blown and exhausted horse over to the care of Hay's stablemen, as he briefly told his story to the wild-eyed, well nigh distracted woman. Six miles up stream, he said, they had come ...

— A Daughter of the Sioux - A Tale of the Indian frontier • Charles King

Words linked to "Cow pony" : saddle horse, mount, riding horse