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 | [email protected], al, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The colt won again the next month in an allowance race.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 31 Aug. 2020
  • 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 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 | [email protected], 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 | [email protected], al, 11 June 2022
  • 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
  • King Guillermo, the colt that drew the sixth gate, was scratched from the race on Thursday.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The colt’s lone victory came by 7.5 lengths at the Fair Grounds on Dec. 3.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], 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
  • George Herman Ruth was a big gray colt with a sharp eye.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
  • Tiz the Law won the Belmont, but the colt couldn’t run to the wire with Authentic at the Derby.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], 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 | [email protected], al, 6 June 2022
  • On the day of the Jerkens Memorial, the colt bounced out of the gate and led every step of the seven-furlong sprint.
    — Joe Drape, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Some had wondered how the 4-year-old colt would do going around two turns for the first time.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The colt, who was scratched the day of the Kentucky Derby, is the early favorite for the Belmont Stakes.
    — Beth Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2023
  • This season has been special for the 4-year-old colt trained by Bill Mott.
    — Jonathan Saxon, The Courier-Journal, 6 May 2022
  • With 50-1 odds, his horse, a three-year-old colt named West Saratoga, is a long shot.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 3 May 2024
  • That win in November earned him the Eclipse Award for best 2-year-old colt.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2021
  • Flavien Prat will be aboard, the fifth different jockey for the colt.
    — James Graham, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
  • The strapping dark brown colt just can’t be brought to believe that there is such a thing as a close race.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • The colt will break from post No. 6 for jockey Paco Lopez.
    — Tom Canavan, Star Tribune, 14 July 2021
  • The bay colt was followed in the morning line odds by Sierra Leone at 3-1 and Catching Freedom at 8-1.
    — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 3 May 2024
  • The colt also needed emergency surgery for a hole that caused urine to leak into his stomach, Jarvis said.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 30 May 2024

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