DCHP-3

buffalo pony

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a horse or pony trained for hunting buffalo.

See: buffalo runner(def. 1)

Quotations

<i>c</i>1902
As soon as the rumbling and pawing began, Colonel Bedson used to send his herders out on the fleetest buffalo ponies to part the contestants. . . .
1908
The Abbé Dugas tells of another occasion when Marie was riding a buffalo pony--one of the horses used as a swift runner on the chase--her baby dangling in a moss bag from one of the saddle pommels.