How to Use colt in a Sentence

colt

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  • But a foot issue scratched the colt the week of the race.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The colt won again the next month in an allowance race.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 31 Aug. 2020
  • When to let the colt or filly have its way on the track.
    — Tom Canavan, The Seattle Times, 9 June 2018
  • The undefeated colt drew the rail in the 12-horse field.
    — Beth Harris, ajc, 4 Nov. 2021
  • And then the colt seemed to come apart, crumpling to the ground and tossing Gaffalione.
    — Joe Drape, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The colt roared toward the front, just off the pace of Lombo.
    — Bryce Miller, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 May 2018
  • The cause of the death was still pending on the unraced 3-year-old colt.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The colt picked up a win last month at the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes.
    — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 6 May 2022
  • The colt has three wins and three seconds in his six races.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 7 May 2022
  • Alas, Leon and his colt finished a neck short of the winner.
    — New York Times, 9 June 2022
  • The colt ran at the tail of the field for most of the race before closing to a sixth-place finish.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 11 June 2022
  • But nothing off the track about Mendelssohn looks as good as the colt has on it.
    — Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 3 May 2018
  • Once that happened, the other nine colts in the field didn’t have a chance.
    — Tom Canavan, The Seattle Times, 9 June 2018
  • His 15 length win two starts back came against a colt who has won twice and both on the turf.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes, 6 May 2022
  • So Baffert wasn’t shocked when the bay colt came through.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Just over four weeks later, the 3-year-old colt was dead.
    — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2021
  • The massive colt has not lost any weight (still 1,270 pounds).
    — Dick Jerardi, Philly.com, 6 June 2018
  • King Guillermo, the colt that drew the sixth gate, was scratched from the race on Thursday.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The colt’s lone victory came by 7.5 lengths at the Fair Grounds on Dec. 3.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 7 June 2023
  • The two scientists missed watching the colts hatch and grow.
    — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The colt held on at the wire as Keepmeinmind, a 30-1 long shot, made a late charge.
    — Gary B. Graves, courant.com, 6 Nov. 2020
  • The 2-year-old colt was the favorite going into the race.
    — CBS News, 5 May 2018
  • That leaves a colt with a grinding style and the stamina to last a mile and a half at a huge price.
    — Joe Drape, New York Times, 8 June 2018
  • George Herman Ruth was a big gray colt with a sharp eye.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
  • The three-year-old colt is 4–1–0 in his career and is based in Europe.
    — Charlotte Carroll, SI.com, 5 May 2018
  • Tiz the Law won the Belmont, but the colt couldn’t run to the wire with Authentic at the Derby.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 3 Oct. 2020
  • But after winning the Run for the Roses at 80-1, the colt was held out of the Preakness Stakes.
    — Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 6 June 2022
  • This 4-year-old colt has never been off the board in 11 starts but this is his first Grade 1 start.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
  • His trio of colts is led by undefeated Mindframe, who will start from the outside No. 10 post.
    — Spencer Ripchik, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2024
  • The painstaking Pletcher was up to that task, putting the colt into a nearly 90-day layoff/back-to-school course of works, no racing, largely at Saratoga.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024

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