Cryptic crossword clue
Youngster mounted on pre-eminent stallion maybe presenting rodeo challenge? 7

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word BUCKING

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The straight part
We know that "presenting /rodeo challenge" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case presenting /rodeo challenge = bucking.
The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does BUCKING mean?

BUCKING verb
  1. To copulate, as bucks and does.
BUCKING verb
  1. To bend; buckle.
  2. (of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
  3. (of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
  4. To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
  5. (by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
  6. (by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
  7. (by extension) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
  8. (riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. See Wikipedia: Rivet:Installation.
  9. To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
  10. To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage. See Wikipedia: Buck converter
BUCKING verb
  1. To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
  2. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
  3. To break up or pulverize, as ores.
BUCKING noun
  1. The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
  2. The liquid used in this process.
  3. A washing.
  4. The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
  5. The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.

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