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stake horse

noun

  1. a horse that is regularly entered in stake races.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of stake horse1

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95
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Example Sentences

On that the sheriff was ready to stake horse and groom, and a hundred dollars beside, that he couldn't do it; but, as it was, he would bet all the money he had about him; and he would go to fetch it when it fell—for he never thought it possible for any gun to carry so far.

It was like the touch of a whip on the flanks of a stake horse.

The New York students, who love all favorites, were enraptured: here was a stake horse, with Arcaro up, out for a gallop; any price was a good one.

It was just before sundown, and a bunch of horses which had been run into the corral when the stake horse was changed had not gotten far away.

That much lead will stop a stake horse.

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