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Pretend to be stable? Easy! (4,4,6)

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I believe the answer is:

hold your horses

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'stable? easy' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'pretend to be' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'be' could be 'hold' (holding is a kind of being) and 'hold' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for hold your horses that I've seen before include "The groom may" , "wait a moment" , "Not so fast" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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