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Less well-bred horse picked up (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

coarser

'less well-bred' is the definition.
(coarse can mean vulgar or ill-bred)

'horse picked up' is the wordplay.
'horse' becomes 'courser' (a very fast horse).
'picked up' indicates a 'sounds like' (homophone) clue.
'courser' is a homophone of 'COARSER'.

(Other definitions for coarser that I've seen before include "Comparatively crude" , "less refined" , "A scorer (anag.)" , "More vulgar" .)

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