Lifelike Russian mounts following to King Cole (7)
I believe the answer is:
natural
'lifelike' is the definition.
(I know that lifelike can be written as natural)
'russian mounts following to king cole' is the wordplay.
'russian mounts following' becomes 'ural' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'king cole' becomes 'nat' (I've seen this before).
'ural' put after 'nat' is 'NATURAL'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for natural that I've seen before include "Everyday" , "Unaffected, normal in manner" , "character on the staff" , "Artless, unaffected," , "Unaffected; off-white" .)