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colt

[kohlt] / koʊlt /
NOUN
young horse
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NOUN
new at something, beginner
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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

Anyone who watched the colt win six of eight starts — including the Santa Anita Derby, the Preakness Stakes and finally the Haskell Stakes on July 19, 2025— might find that unthinkable.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 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

“Or,” he added reluctantly in a low voice, “there is my horse, Melynlas, a colt of Melyngar, Prince Gwydion’s own steed. None is faster or more surefooted. I treasure Melynlas beyond all others.”

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

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

Is there a record at Santa Anita for 3-year-old colts running on the dirt that trainer Bob Baffert doesn’t own?

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 26, 2023

The two scientists missed watching the colts hatch and grow.

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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