Sentence examples for skilled horseman from inspiring English sources

Washington let Pulaski join the fight against the British, and he made a name for himself as a skilled horseman.

Watie, a skilled horseman, worked well with the white guerrillas who assumed a larger role in the Confederate military now that the regular army was largely gone from the region.

This is a so-called reality show on Extreme Sports, in which an "elite tracker and skilled horseman" hunt down two fellows on foot, who reckon they can escape the Mantracker's clutches.

The son of an Irish convict, Kelly was a skilled horseman and marksman who lived in Victoria in south-eastern Australia, where he was visited in 1878 by a young policeman who intended to arrest him on charges of horse stealing.

A keen and skilled horseman, Gibbs was seen habitually in New Haven driving his sister's carriage.

Under the Ottomans, Vlad and his younger brother were tutored in science, philosophy and the arts — Vlad also became a skilled horseman and warrior.

Skilled horsemen, they rampaged across ancient Eurasia as far east as China.

By the mid-17th century, less than 100 years after the arrival of the Spanish, the Mbayá had become skilled horsemen, and their culture was undergoing drastic changes.

In 1832, Kamehameha III, the king's son, brought in vaqueros, skilled horsemen of Spanish descent, from Mexico (paniolo is thought to derive from españoles, or Spaniards) to contain the swelling herds.

"This change recognises that a 'grey' issue cannot be proportionately and fairly regulated by a 'black and white' rule," Paul Struthers, the chief executive of the PJA, said, "and that jockeys are skilled horsemen who care passionately about horses and are being denied the ability to use their full skill and judgment throughout the course of the race.

"This change recognises that a 'grey' issue cannot be proportionately and fairly regulated by a 'black and white' rule, and that jockeys are skilled horsemen who care passionately about horses and are being denied the ability to use their full skill and judgement throughout the course of the race.