The word "warhorse" is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun that is used to refer to a horse trained for battle. You can use it in contexts where you are talking about ancient warriors, or to describe someone who is experienced in a particular field and highly dependable. Example sentence: "The veteran employee was a real warhorse, and the company was well aware of their dependance on him."
A young generation had been inspired to victory by a wily old warhorse who knew, far better than anyone else, how to win a sporting contest.
Yet Mr Brown has given only the vaguest prescriptions, involving that valiant warhorse "efficiency savings", for correcting matters in future.Even if there is a brisk economic recovery soon (and this is no more than a hope) the gaping hole in the public finances will persist.
By contrast, the PQ's Bernard Landry is a shrewd but often testy warhorse of the secessionist movement.
The Astrid, a seasoned warhorse of the tall-ships races, is at present laid up for lack of funds.
With "delivery" the new watch-word, it seemed Mr Blair wanted only able technocrats, such as Stephen Byers (yes, really), in key jobs.But when Mr Byers was terminated in early summer for being, albeit in other ways, an even greater embarrassment, Mr Blair brought the old warhorse out of semi-retirement by returning to Mr Prescott half of his old empire.
It marks, too, the fading away of an old warhorse in the party, Lal Krishna Advani (front row, centre).Mr Modi openly hungers for the chance to be India's leader.
Bringing back such an old warhorse hardly suggests a forward-looking mood in the party.
The old warhorse from Kansas needed someone young and nakedly political.
An old warhorse of the left, Mr Rybkin might make a neat bridge with the Communist Party if Mr Berezovsky really wanted to impede the reformers.
He is neither a legislative warhorse, like Teddy Kennedy, nor a policy wonk, as Governor Clinton was in Arkansas.
Before any more attractive alternatives could be brought into play, such as Oliver Letwin, the shadow home secretary, or a capable old warhorse like Michael Howard, the shadow chancellor, 25 MPs must sign a motion demanding a vote of no confidence within the parliamentary party.
