a ranch specializing in the raising of horses.
- 1888  (1890)  Algernon went for a ride with Mr. Kerfoot, and in the afternoon we all rode over to his horse-ranche.
- 1910  The Blackfeet tribes, also well armed, were less a source of anxiety, but they were in close and tempting proximity to cattle and horse ranches, and it was just possible that the younger chiefs of the Bloods and Blackfeet might kick over the traces.
- 1934  . . . headquarters were at Fort Kamloops, where in those days the Company maintained a large horse ranch of some two thousand to three thousand animals.