PALOMINO HORSE

American light horse that, contrary to popular opinion, is not a breed but a color type. The palomino is a characteristic golden, creamy tan, with an almost white mane and tail. White stripes on the face and white stockings are common. This coloring occurs in several breeds of light horse. Palominos were probably first selected for their beautiful color in Spain. They accompanied the conquistadors to the New World, where they were perpetuated by early Mexican horse breeders. They were discovered by Americans in California during the Mexican-American War, and are now popular parade and show horses; fanciers in the United States are trying to establish the palomino as a breed. Palominos have Arabian or Thoroughbred features, stand about 15 hands (60 in./150 cm) high, and weigh about 1,100 lb (500 kg).

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books on: Palomino Horse  - 209 results

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Imaginary Parents
Book by Sheila Ortiz Taylor; University of New Mexico Press, 1996
Subjects: Authors, American--20th Century--Family Relationships, Family--California--Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social Life And Customs, Taylor, Sheila Ortiz--1939---Childhood And Youth
...my little sister about want ing a horse. Little did any of us recognize the horse was Pegasus. My childhood ambition...always plays the nurse, and I always play the horse who pulls the wagon conveying the downed pilot...
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Dakota Cowboy: My Life in the Old Days
Book by Ike Blasingame; University of Nebraska Press, 1958
Subjects: Cattle Trade--South Dakota, Cowboys, Frontier And Pioneer Life--South Dakota, Ranch Life
...let a steer run in a roundup or stirred up the cattle. Bill Smedley, Sword Dagger wagon boss, rode Silver, a palomino horse raised by the Indian, Lone Eagle. Silver was sharp as a fox in a roundup. He knew what steer he was after and never...
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The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
Book by Humphrey Carpenter, Mari Prichard; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Children's Literature--Dictionaries
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Encyclopedia of American Folk Art
Book by Gerard C.Wertkin, Lee Kogan; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Folk Art--United States--Encyclopedias
...1987 he sold a foot-high unpainted wooden horse to Morehead State University, and in 1988...years he produced many versions of this horse, either in plain wood or painted black all over. The standing horse came in two basic versions: one upright...
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The Times Are Never So Bad: A Novella & Eight Short Stories
Book by Andre Dubus; David R. Godine, 1983
Subjects: Drama
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journal articles on: Palomino Horse  - 7 results

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When a "White Horse" is Not a "Horse"
Journal article by Kirill Ole Thompson; Philosophy East & West, Vol. 45, 1995
Subjects: Philosophy, Philosophy, Asian
...Kung-suns emerging view appears to be that whether "white horse" is a term or not turns on the speakers intentions and communicative...were treating the compound expression as a single term, like palomino, as suggested by Hansen (ibid., p. 166). 15...
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The Semiotics of Dwelling in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
Journal article by Catherine Rainwater; The American Journal of Semiotics, Vol. 9, 1992
...her arms flung around the neck of a palomino horse. She was holding a bottle of Coca-Cola...Coca-Cola calendar are unnaturally clean. Horse and twirler alike are "bleached...depicted in the "American-girl-with-horse" scene. Likewise, when Tayo looks...
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Vraisemblance and the Western Setting in Contemporary Science Fiction Film
Journal article by Lane Roth; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 13, 1985
Subjects: Motion picture criticism, Motion pictures, Science fiction & fantasy
...spaceship. References to the horse are found in the names Palomino for the exploratory ship in...reinforces that allusion, as when the Palomino is buffeted by the gravitational...bucking like a bronco." Unlike the horse, the spaceship is an artifact...
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Eating Dirt
Journal article by Carolyn Cooke; New England Review, Vol. 18, 1997
Subjects: Fiction
...was Louise in the yard with her horse, her Palomino; her hand on the side of the horses...said. "I forgot. You can see my horse if you want." My cousins and the...took me out to the corral where her horse stood in the wet black muck out...
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Resurgent Mexican Phoenix
Journal article by Alex P. Oberle, Daniel D. Arreola; The Geographical Review, Vol. 98, 2008
Subjects: Cities and towns--Demographic aspects, Cities and towns--Social aspects, Phoenix, Arizona--Demographic aspects, Phoenix, Arizona--Social aspects
...area was still a major producer of cattle and other livestock. Like many similar paintings, this piece includes a vaquero on a horse as well as nostalgic white adobe homes with red tile roofs. Depiction of a rural, Mexican landscape is an effective mechanism...
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Foaling Season: We Could Dress Sheila Altman in My Sister's Clothes and Sell Her My Sister's Horse, but What Could She Understand about the Way Things Worked?
Magazine article by Aryn Kyle; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 293, May 2004
Subjects: Fiction
...come out sometime." Yellow Cap was the last horse my father bought for her. He was a palomino--the flashiest, biggest, most beautiful animal...with some prospective clients and said, "That horse would walk on water if she asked him to...
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Tallyho and Tribulation: In the Sport of Fox Hunting the First Thing to Understand Is That Things Almost Never Go Right
Magazine article by Stephen Budiansky; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 286, September 2000
Subjects: Fox hunting
...I often dream about my own horse, a large and touchy palomino, on the one day in ten years...earth filled the air, and my horse was the palomino Pegasus. He soared over...was, in short, the perfect horse on the perfect day. And...
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Sport - Tallyho and Tribulation
Magazine article by Stephen Budiansky; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 286, September 2000
Subjects: Fox hunting--Social aspects, Fox-hunting--Social aspects, Hunters--Practice, Hunting--Psychological aspects, Sports--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...I often dream about my own horse, a large and touchy palomino, on the one day in ten years...earth filled the air, and my horse was the palomino Pegasus. He soared over every...was, in short, the perfect horse on the perfect day. And...
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Happy Trails
Magazine article by Jane Stern, Michael Stern; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 272, November 1993
Subjects: Art museums, Evans, Dale--Biography, Motion picture actors and actresses, Movie actors, Museums, Rogers, Roy--Biography, Victorville, California, Western films--Personalities, Western movies--Personalities
...California and to the golden palomino Trigger. The ripples of Roy...once billed as "The Smartest Horse in the Movies." At closing time...case along with Dales buckskin horse, Buttermilk, and the couples...all, whats a cowboy without a horse?" The museum abounds with as...
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East Bay Grease
Magazine article by Katherine Vaz; The Antioch Review, Vol. 62, Summer 2004
...hit them that they were chewing an animal. Emil Villas b-b-q place, the Captain Aguas Dive Center, the sunlight flinging palomino blotches onto walls: Hayward is Edward Hopper done over Latin. I park at the Carniceria Morelia (Abarrotes, Verduras, Frutas...
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newspaper articles on: Palomino Horse  - 61 results

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A Rocking Horse for Every Reader
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 25, 2007
Subjects: Toys
...x 106cm long, and the small palomino pony is 65cm high x 74cmlong...other horsey sounds. Thelarge horse can be yours for only pounds sterling24.99 and the small horse for only pounds sterling19.99,plus pounds sterling9.99 p p per horse and 30 tokens. The rocking horses...
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Icelandic Horse Breeders Put on Winter Show at Etal Manor
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), February 12, 2005
...a supple well-set neck and strong limbs. Coats are fine and shiny but in winter the horse grows a long thick coat with three distinct layers. Icelandics can be any colour, bay, brown, chestnut, skewbald, palomino or dun ( up to 40 in total.
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Horse WHISPERS
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), December 1, 2005
Subjects: Horses
Horse WHISPERS. Byline: ROSEMARY DUNNAGE...not in the mineral but in horses: palominos, to be precise, whose glorious golden...pony stud. Their idea is to breed palominos consistently from Welsh Cobs and...equation. The other is Holly, a palomino three-year-old mare, to be covered...
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Horse Racing: KNACKERED; Sunday Mail INVESTIGATION Shamed Solicitor's Dodgy Trade in Old Nags
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), June 25, 2006
Subjects: Anderson, Paul Thomas
...document on microchipping horses. Anderson then showed us a Palomino called Bobo whose passport was also "missing" due to a "mix-up...must think we lose all our passports." Victims duped by the horse trader include Lesley Smart, 34, of Carluke, Lanarkshire. She...
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Heavy Horse Society Growing
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), September 11, 2007
Subjects: Horses
...Peter de Rades Section B winner, the two-year-old Dutch bred palomino Kenwood Showman. Reserve overall was Lynda Heads four-year...First of May, ridden by her daughter Lyndsey. In the heavy horse classes, Elfed and Louise Davies led a dozen entries with their...
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encyclopedia articles on: Palomino Horse  - 4 results

 
 
1.
Palomino Horse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PALOMINO HORSE American light horse that, contrary to popular opinion, is not a breed but a color type. The palomino is a characteristic golden, creamy...occurs in several breeds of light horse. Palominos were probably first selected for...
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Light Horse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...training, e.g., racers, trotters, riding horses, and cow horses. See also pony , American saddlebred horse , Appaloosa , Morgan , palomino , Pinto , quarter horse , and Standardbred . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...
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Horse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...known for its easy gaits; the Morgan and the quarter horse , favored for riding and cow herding; and the Standardbred...herding, are distinguished by their patterned colors. The palomino is not a breed but a color type. Among the small horses are...
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Rogers, Roy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...rode, and acted in dozens of B movies, usually accompanied by their bearded sidekick George "Gabby" Hayes and Roys palomino horse Trigger. The couple also starred (1951 57) in televisions Roy Rogers Show and hosted (1962 63) a variety program...


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