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A slender-legged short-coupled horse of a light tan or cream color with white markings on the face and legs and flaxen or white mane and tail from ancestry largely of Arabian stock.

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  • Eight magnificent horses, all large palominos, trotted at the head of the vehicle, their white manes and long fetlocks smoothly combed.
  • Her act involved holding the reins of 16 palominos hitched in eight ranks of two each, while standing atop the rear two and galloping around the big top at breakneck speed.
  • As the gigantic black shape skimmed over the treetops of the Forbidden Forest and the lights shining from the castle windows hit it, they saw a gigantic, powderblue,...
  • But ten is not old for a horse, and it's not unusual for a horse to remain unadopted on the third try - there are barely enough adopters to take in the thousands of available...
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