How to Use gelding in a Sentence

gelding

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  • This will be the 3-year-old gelding’s first start since.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
  • This is a one-turn mile, and the gelding’s last win came around one turn.
    — Ed Derosa, The Courier-Journal, 2 May 2023
  • This will be the 6-year-old gelding’s first start since then.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The 3-year-old gelding had the lead going into the stretch and then cruised to a 2 3/4-length win.
    — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • But the horse that had caught my eye, the one that drew me to him, was the white gelding standing alone on the hill.
    — Jill Gleeson, Woman's Day, 23 June 2017
  • His only win came Jan. 5 of last year for the 4-year-old gelding.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2021
  • This was followed by the death of a 3-year-old gelding called Omar later in the year.
    — Phil Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The gelding was the second favorite and was running in second through the first 3/4s of the race.
    — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 6 July 2018
  • The sun was bright and warm, the breeze just strong enough to ruffle—almost as if on cue—the gelding's mane.
    — Jill Gleeson, Woman's Day, 23 June 2017
  • The 4-year-old gelding gets the weight break with apprentice Edgar Morales in the saddle.
    — Scott Shapiro, The Courier-Journal, 1 May 2018
  • First-time gelding gets blinkers today and looks like the one to beat.
    — Mike Battaglia, The Courier-Journal, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The gelding is one of three entrants in the Dr. Fager trained by Ralph Nicks and will be seeking his first win.
    — Tim Dwyer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Jockey Abel Cedillo jerked on the reins to ease the 4-year-old gelding, who hopped on three legs.
    — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
  • In 2005, after his retirement, the gelding was brought to Old Friends Farm to live out the rest of his days.
    — NBC News, 23 Jan. 2022
  • As a gelding, he was retired at age 5 and sent home to his owners’ farm.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 21 May 2020
  • The 6-year-old gelding bounded from the starting gate ahead of the other eight runners.
    — Hal Lundgren, Houston Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2018
  • West Newton, a 6-year-old gelding, rallied from sixth place to win by a half-length.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2022
  • This lightly raced 6-year-old gelding has won half of his six races but none at the stakes level.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2021
  • The late-running gelding needs help up front, which is our main concern in this mile turf event.
    — John Cherwa, latimes.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • The 4-year-old gelding also gave jockey Flavien Prat his third win of the day, with all of them coming on the turf in stakes races.
    — Jonathan Saxon, The Courier-Journal, 1 May 2021
  • The 8-year-old gelding, owned by Sara E. Collette, showed no signs of rust after more than a year on the sidelines.
    — Sun Staff Reports, baltimoresun.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • The weight on the horses’ forelegs grew lighter, until Grant lost his nerve and shimmied down to lead his gelding on foot.
    — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • In 2000, Leslie started her own llama farm in Ohio with just a fluffy female and a gelding.
    — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Feb. 2021
  • The gelding by Apollitical Jess has hit the board in all six of his career starts.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Chloe Dream was a three-year-old gelding that ran on the Derby undercard.
    — Chantz Martin, Fox News, 6 May 2023
  • Jockey Ramon Vazquez had eased Coast of Roan before the 6-year-old gelding crossed the finish line on the turf course.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022
  • This 8-year-old gelding has won five of 17 lifetime with six seconds.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2021
  • The win in the 7-furlong affair for Florida breds, 3-years-old and upward was the gelding's first stakes win.
    — Tim Dwyer, Sun-Sentinel.com, 20 May 2017
  • Hernandez was aboard Carmelita’s Man in the 6-year-old gelding’s victory in the California Dreamin’.
    — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The 3-year-old gelding walked onto the horse ambulance and was evaluated at the track and then shipped to an equine hospital in Lexington, where the horse was euthanized.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023

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