colt
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The 4-year-old colt, who was injured at the start of the San Diego Handicap, which he rallied to win, will be put out to stud.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 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
He wasn’t much of a match for his colt, who tugged away at the bridle, begging to run.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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
The first time they tried this multi-entity approach was 2018 and they sent Baffert to the Keeneland yearling sale with about $9 million and he bought 17 colts.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2024
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
After one of Millie and Roy's colts died, Roy began picking up blades of grass and dropping them near his offspring's body.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 22, 2023
There was the stallion, three mares, their colts, and two geldings for riding.
From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III
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