Mod that makes grass load faster?

Is it possible to make the grass faster? Maybe less detailed grass or somehow decreasing model count.

Galloping on a horse is difficult because of the frequent pauses caused by the grass loading (unless grass chunk setting is ridiculously low).

I'm just asking in general, to see if the plugin API or custom 3D models/textures would allow this. The pauses are more like framerate stutters, but they're still noticeable and obviously caused by the grass (lowering the grass chunks eliminates it). Basically, I'm willing to have slightly uglier grass so that I don't have to reduce the grass draw distance.
And yes, my graphics settings are optimized as they can be.