Meaning

One who takes care of horses, which may include breeding or training..

Definitions by Sense

1. One who takes care of horses, which may include breeding or training.
2. (rare) An expert equestrian.

Example Sentences

Ben had “Buck” Commings with him who also hails from the “Bad Lands”, but “Buck” will only lasso horses. He will be horsemaster at camp.

My riding instructor was once horsemaster at Astley’s Circus.

‘I was assistant horsemaster at the stud back home.’

When King Richard had been killed at Bosworth, Tom Thomson had become horsemaster at Jervaulx and begun his own stud there.

Both Masika and Chantal Dupont confirmed that Moses Rawlings, longtime horsemaster at Riverain, had known the Jolimont overseer of thirteen years before.

When you speak to the horsemaster at the station, tell him that the future of the Exteca hangs upon your news; he must give you fresh horses and a direct pass to Tola.

“Why not horse breeding or training?” Arcolin asked. / “I didn’t want to stay in one place,” Burek said. “And besides—I also like swords and fighting.” They were up at the road by then. “I had the chance, sir . . . to stay, to become a horsemaster . . . but it would be the same thing the rest of my life, year after year.[…]”

The teen-age equestrienne has big dreams and big plans for “Mr. John.” He and Sudy will start out on the Wisconsin Circuit when the show opens in Madison. What are her chances? Modestly, Sudy replies, “Both of us will do our best—but let’s not be previous.” / And what does the future hold? Sudy wants more than anything to become a horsemaster. If all goes well she will learn the art at Porlock Vale Riding School, Porlock, Somerset, England.

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