Word: sorrell
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...Quarter Horse mares nearly stumped him before the whistle blew that time was nearly up. He noted, unofficially, that Mare No. 1 was held by a blonde lady ("wide-brimmed hat, pony tail, fur coat, slacks and moccasins"), that the mare herself wasn't too bad either ("a sorrel, pretty well muscled, true in her movement"). Mare No. 2 looked as if she were going to bite or kick; No. 3 was "thick through the stifle," and No. 4 was "a deep chestnut, stylish, powerfully muscled." As Eddie passed along, he wrote his decision...
...mount, an untamed sorrel, exploded from the rodeo chute, rearing and chopping at the air, twisting its body with a whiplike motion, then settled down to a series of earth-pounding bucks. Champion Bill Linderman gripped with his thighs, with practiced nonchalance raked the sorrel's sides with his spurs, timing the raking motion to match the rhythm ot the bucks. All the while, Linderman kept his eyes on the sorrel's ears−whose turnings often tip off the next plunge...
After eight seconds of this, the timer sounded his horn. Other cowboys closed in on the bucking sorrel, grabbed the halter and gave rangy (6 ft., 180 Ibs.) Bill Linderman a chance to swing safely to the ground. From the rodeo crowd came the happy hooting and hollering of people who know a good ride when they...
...girl, but no beauty: the quality that makes critics and plainer-spoken men yearn over her is charm-a charm to whose single-minded cultivation she has devoted her whole, determined young life. One critic has compared this quality to "the wistful beauty of a lonely blossom of wood sorrel." Of her Juliet, another wrote that she gives "a sweet new agony to the supreme love-drama in the English language." A third tried to describe her as having "the air of being untouched by human hands. She has, quite instinctively, an uncrushable air of absolute innocence...
Stubbs's diligent studies paid off in other ways. As England's recognized authority on horses, he was swamped with commissions from hard-riding country gentlemen for portraits of their favorite mounts. They were rarely disappointed. Such Stubbs champions as the Marquis of Rockingham's yellow sorrel, Whistlejacket, or the handsome grey, Gimcrack, are not only first-class paintings, but display an accuracy of detail that the most critical stableman still finds unexceptionable...