colt
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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
“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
DeVaux has done what she can do to prepare her 3-year-old colt, Golden Tempo, for Saturday’s third leg of the Triple Crown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Tugging his right rein, Pollard fanned his colt out and hung on as Seabiscuit gunned Velociter down.
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
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
When this pair cut away for open water, they leaped in tandem, again and again, like colts in a blue meadow.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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