But, three years ended, when the fourth arrives, Now let him tarry not to run the ring With rhythmic hoof-beat echoing, and now learn Alternately to curve each bending leg, And be like one that struggleth; then at last Challenge the winds to race him, and at speed Launched through the open, like a Reinless thing, Scarce print his footsteps on the surface-sand.
"The Georgics"
Virgil
Both the Turkish and Persian mail is carried in saddle-bags on the backs of Reinless horses driven at a rapid gallop before the mounted mail-carrier or herdsman.
"Across Asia on a Bicycle"
Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben
The milkmaids as they went out to the rows of sheep and goats tied to the lines of woolen rope, and the horsemen with Reinless horses to drive in the ranging herds, spread the news from tent to tent.
"Across Asia on a Bicycle"
Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben