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colt

[kohlt] / koʊlt /
NOUN
young horse
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NOUN
new at something, beginner
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Six days after winning his first race in nearly a year, the multiple Grade 1-stakes-winning colt Journalism has been retired.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

The colt already was scheduled to begin stallion duty next year at Coolmore’s Ashford Farm in Versailles, Ky.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

“It just kind of took the starch out of everything,” said Aron Wellman, managing partner of Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, co-owner of the 4-year-old colt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

Ron Chernow recounts in his biography of Ulysses Grant a childhood episode in which he was sent to buy a colt with instructions to offer progressively higher sums.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

But somehow, after throwing a fit in the starting gate and being left flat-footed at the bell, the colt won his race that day.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

While O’Neill never could have expected to be here with his Cal-bred, Baffert will start two of the myriad expensive colts his clients buy each year.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

To his audience, many of them women aged 18 to 30, Johnson presents the world of colts, jockeys and towering headpieces as a networking opportunity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

He married Pamela Yellin in 1980, and in 1995 they moved from New Jersey to River Edge Farm, a 110-acre spread in Buellton, Calif., where they raised fillies and colts to become top racehorses.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2024

Before long, their colts peeped through the tall grass, begging for food and learning to dance.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2023

Then he talked awhile about a panther that had caught and killed one of Joe Anson’s colts and how the Anson boys had put their dogs on the trail.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson




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