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** The mismatched team that draws his chariot in the Roman Empire segments of ''[[Three Ages]]''.
* In ''[[Deadman]]'', the crazy [[Western]] industrialist (Robert Mitchum) not only hires three of the most "vicious killers of Men and Injuns in the West" to hunt down the murderer of his son, he wants them to return his "most prized posession"... ''a Pinto.'' Which he takes even more offense at.
{{quote| '''Dickinson:''' Last night, my youngest son, Charlie was gunned down in cold blood right here in our own hotel. The gutless murderer... also shot to death Miss Thel Russel, the fiancee of my beloved son. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Not only that, but he stole a very spirited and valuable horse, a beautiful young Pinto that belonged to my personal family stable.]]<br />
'''Conway Twill:''' Hell, only, a Pinto ain't rightly a horse to fret much about, if the truth be told --<br />
'''Dickinson: Shut up!''' My boy Charlie is ''dead!'' Oh, I ain't askin' this time. I'm tellin'. And if somebody don't like it, I'm prepared to do a little killin' of my own. ''(later)'' I want this out over the wires. Post a $5000 reward from here to hell and back. Bring everybody in. I want that bastard's head. And make sure you include a full description of my Pinto. I want that horse back.<br />
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== Theater ==
* The horse Petruchio rides to his wedding in ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'' takes this trope [[Up to Eleven]], apparently. Unfortunately, this being a stage show, we never actually get to see it.
{{quote| '''Biondello:''' ... his horse hipped with an old mothy saddle and stirrups of no kindred, besides possessed with the glanders and like to mose in the chine, troubled with the lampass, infected with the fashions, full of wingdalls, sped with spavins, rayed with yellows, past cure of the fives, stark spoiled with the staggers, begnawn with the bots, swayed in the back and shoulder-shotten, near-legged before and with a half-checked bit and a headstall of sheeps leather, which, being restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been often burst, and now repaired with knots ...}}
 
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== Real Life ==
* There is a story that [[Abraham Lincoln]], when he was a lawyer, wagered that he could come out ahead in any horse trade. A judge took up the challenge. Here's how it played out, according to ''[http://www.coachwhipbooks.com/chapters/lincoln-stories/lincoln-lawyer.html Lincoln's Own Stories:]''
{{quote| A crowd gathered, anticipating some fun, and when the judge returned first the laugh was uproarious. He led, or rather dragged, at the end of a halter the meanest, boniest, rib-staring quadruped—blind in both eyes—that ever pressed turf. But presently Lincoln came along carrying over his shoulder a carpenter's sawhorse. Then the mirth of the crowd was furious. Lincoln solemnly set his horse down, and silently surveyed the judge's animal with a comical look of infinite disgust.<br />
"Well, Judge," he finally said, "this is the first time I ever got the worst of it in a horse-trade." }}
* Seabiscuit, a famous thoroughbred champion during [[The Great Depression]], did not perform to his full potential and was sometimes the butt of stable jokes for the first three years of his life. Then, with special training, he blossomed into a [[Cool Horse]].
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