warhorse

sotahevonen

sotaveteraani puhekieltä Any horse used in horse-cavalry, but especially one bearing an armored knight.
As he spoke, the knight-errant, who had remounted his warhorse, galloped forward to the royal stand, with a silken kerchief bound round his wounded arm. — Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company, s:The White Company/Chapter XXIV|Chapter 26.
puhekieltä A regularly revived theatrical or musical work, as with Hamlet or a Beethoven symphony, or as excerpts thereto. May imply that the work in question has become hackneyed.
2006 Most important though is the fact that, for the first time in I can barely remember how long, the ROH mounts a new production of an Italian repertory warhorse that is fully on the level of the one it replaces and indeed, in some respects, surpasses it ... we actually have a "Tosca". — http://groups.google.sm/group/rec.music.opera/browse_thread/thread/f6b61851eea2a30e/c9951c6fb15d3954?lnk=raot&hl=it Google group.
An experienced person who has been through many battles, situations or contests; someone who has given long service.
"Srinath: Indias warhorse" (headline from http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/specials/west_indies_v_india/2022023.stm BBC News)''