free-going

A free-going sort, he did not seem to appreciate being held up in the early stages of the race at York on his latest start, so expect to see him ridden more prominently this afternoon.

Talking Horses | Will Hayler 2011

In the free-going days when only carrier-carts ran to Stroud she would often hold them up for an hour, but when the motor-bus started she saw no difference and carried on in the same old way.

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

STAGE HORSE 'congratulated the community upon the abolition of bearing-reins, those grievous burdens upon the necks of all free-going horses; and he trusted the time would soon arrive when the blinkers would also be taken off, every corn-bin thrown open, and every horse his own leader.'

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

Coiled up into the smallest possible space, his chin almost resting on his knees, his hands close to his sides, firmly but lightly feeling the rudder, as a good horseman handles the mouth of a free-going hunter; if a coxswain could make a bump by his own exertions, surely he will do it.

The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education

He congratulated the community upon the abolition of bearing reins, those grievous burdens upon the necks of all free-going horses; and he trusted the time would soon arrive when the blinkers would also be taken off, every corn-binn thrown open, and every horse his own leader.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various

They are an easy, free-going race of Bohemians, especially in the artistic set where one moves, more or less, as a journalist.

Russia 1933

Suddenly he heard the brisk play of sleigh-bells and a cutter passed him, drawn by a free-going horse.

Ethan Frome Edith Wharton 1899

That's divine business, yet for the free-going of the mind it would lend such impulse, to see clearly.

Letters of Franklin K. Lane Franklin Knight Lane 1892

To persons who know little or nothing about horses, the fact of their usually free-going mount ceasing to go up to his bridle and to answer an encouraging shake of the reins or touch of the whip, are valuable indications that he should be pulled up, either into a trot or walk.

The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. Alice M. Hayes 1873

Of Byron's dramas we are obliged to say that, to borrow his own metaphor, he would have fared better as a poet if he had taken warning from the beacons, and had given blank verse a wide berth, instead of setting himself boldly on a course which, as he evidently knew, is full of peril for fast-sailing, free-going versifiers.

Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873