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n.
A saddle horse specially trained to separate individual animals from a cattle herd.


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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: cutting horse
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Light saddle horse trained to cut (isolate) livestock, especially cattle, from herds. Most are quarter horses, with the intelligence, speed, and ability to make quick starts, stops, and turns. A well-trained cutting horse can maneuver an animal away from a herd and into a corner with little direction from a rider or, in some cases, without a rider.

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Veterinary Dictionary: Cutting horse
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Not a breed, but a class of horse used for working cattle on the range, in cattle camps and in yards. Several varieties exist, e.g. Canadian Cutting horse, American Cutting horse. See also australian Stock horse.

 
 

 

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Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
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Veterinary Dictionary. Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary 3rd Edition. Copyright © 2007 by D.C. Blood, V.P. Studdert and C.C. Gay, Elsevier. All rights reserved.  Read more