Oat-burner

He's not just your basic oat-burner who runs because he's taught to.

“I'd like to see his face when Taral puts the collar on that oat-burner in the stretch,” he says. “That boy can make a horse run backwards.”

We'll never make hundreds of miles on this oat-burner. He'll still be close enough to his own farm that someone will recognize him eventually.

Even though we were dead serious about this oat-burner, the home audiences probably collapsed when, along with the Old West dialogue and scenes, they heard the honking and screeching noises of automobiles or the roaring of airplanes overhead.

Here are the two lead sentences in the liner notes for a recently released western, an oat-burner just out on video called Covenant Rider.

In this oat-burner, the hero, played by Buck Jones, is supposedly a full-blooded Bannock pony express rider who falls head over heels for a white woman.