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colt

[kohlt] / koʊlt /
NOUN
young horse
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NOUN
new at something, beginner
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Hoping to improve Chief Wallabee’s focus, Mott will have the colt race in blinkers for the first time in the Derby.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

That race and two others were on grass; Baffert said he did that because he wanted to get the colt in some races.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2026

The Ryan consortium also has a colt in the eight-horse field, Litmus Test, a son of Nyquist who was an $875,000 purchase.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

Werth had the same talk with Dornoch, and based on the outcome it was as if the 3-year-old colt understood.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2025

Riddle had been harboring a grudge against Pimlico since 1926, when the track’s racing secretary had assigned his colt Crusader 126 pounds in a major race—Crusader lost to a horse carrying 93 pounds.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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