colt

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Baffert said Potente would start once more before the Derby; one possibility is the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby on April 4, a race in which another Baffert colt, Cherokee Nation, is expected to run.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2026

The colt won his first race on July 26 at Del Mar and then won the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity on Sept. 7.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

“He told me I should try and get in on a colt and get in on the Derby dream,” Werth said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025

As her book explains, after overindulging at the house of a neighbor who had a newborn colt, she then tweeted about it with existential despair: “He has tasted life’s infinite tragedy.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2025

He brought the colt around to the front of the gate, had the assistant place a pair of tongs on the horse’s lips to distract him, then had him backed into the stall.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand