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I think it's /d/ at the end of words and after /r/ sounds like /s/, but it isn't. I usually use forvo.com for checking like that. See http://en.forvo.com/word/paard/#nl
Okay, I found the answer to my own question.
Here's the path:
Modern Dutch paard < Late Latin paraveredus "post horse for outlying districts" (6th c.), originally "extra horse," < Greek para "beside, secondary" + Latin veredus "fast, light horse used by couriers". (Possibly the Latin word came from Gaulish voredos, from Celtic wo-red.)
Apparently, Middle Dutch had the word ors which sounds like the English horse, but paard overtook it.
Paard has the same Latin origin as the English word palfrey which refers to a horse for riding (not a war horse or draft horse).
https://www.directdutch.com/2014/02/word-of-the-day-paard-horse/ https://www.etymonline.com/word/palfrey http://www.etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/paard
That last link I read in translation as I cannot yet read Dutch very well!