"cutting horse" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1911, Andy Adams, chapter 21, in Wells Brothers:",
          "text": "The average cow can dodge and turn quicker than the ordinary horse. . . . Cunning and ingenuity, combined with the required alertness, a perfect rein, coupled with years of actual work, produce that rarest of range mounts—the cutting horse.",
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          "ref": "1953 April 13, “Sport: Cutting Horse”, in Time, retrieved 2014-05-08:",
          "text": "A cutting horse needs high spirits and a high I.Q. His highly specialized ranch job is to nose into a herd and cut away calves marked for market.",
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          "ref": "2006 January 2, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “The Rural Life: Magnus”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-05-08:",
          "text": "[T]he other day Magnus, our 300-pound Tamworth boar, got out. . . . Remedy, the retired cutting horse, cut left and right, agile as a cat, flaring and snorting, to keep Magnus at bay.",
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        "A horse which has been trained to assist its rider in managing livestock by separating selected animals from a herd."
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          "word": "cutting-horse"
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          "ref": "1953 April 13, “Sport: Cutting Horse”, in Time, retrieved 2014-05-08:",
          "text": "A cutting horse needs high spirits and a high I.Q. His highly specialized ranch job is to nose into a herd and cut away calves marked for market.",
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          "ref": "2006 January 2, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “The Rural Life: Magnus”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-05-08:",
          "text": "[T]he other day Magnus, our 300-pound Tamworth boar, got out. . . . Remedy, the retired cutting horse, cut left and right, agile as a cat, flaring and snorting, to keep Magnus at bay.",
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