ambler

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"Fiasco" and "ludicrous": just a couple of the words this morning's eidtion of The Sun uses to describe Blackburn's attempts to sign big-shorted, hang-10 gesturing, suddenly-stopped-being-brilliant AC Milan ambler Ronaldinho.

From The Guardian • Jan. 3, 2011

It was his fellow ambler, Waqar, who took 48 Test wickets before his 19th birthday.

From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2010

On the march from Vyazma to Tsarevo-Zaymishche he rode his light bay bobtailed ambler accompanied by his Guards, his bodyguard, his pages, and aides-de-camp.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Upon an ambler easily she sat, Y-wimpled well, and on her head a hat, As broad as is a buckler or a targe.

From Chaucer by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir

I do not think that any horse with practically but a single gait, as is usually the case with the ambler or racker, comes up to the requisite standard of usefulness.

From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Dodge, Theodore Ayrault