stallion

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Recent Examples of stallion Researchers have seen that wild horses and burros will hog water tanks, streams, and other water sources — often to the detriment of native critters like deer and antelope, which are easily bullied by a big stallion. Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 31 July 2025 Its speed, curves, and pizzazz, without being tacky, were so different from anything else on the water that the first hull was sold outside Italy, reportedly to a former New York governor who kept the Italian stallion incognito, outside the view of tax-payers. Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 23 July 2025 The mare has a bird-like trill in her; the stallion is a little bit more lion and bear. Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 28 Mar. 2025 Two weeks before the stallion photo shoot, Hamilton is striking golf balls into a simulator at an indoor club on the banks of the Thames. Sean Gregory / London and Maranello, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stallion
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Noun
  • This is the epitome of mare e montagna (mountain and sea).
    Erica Firpo, AFAR Media, 8 Sep. 2025
  • But the path to the winner’s circle might be a bit more difficult for the 5-year-old daughter of Uncle Mo in the 1 1/8-mile turf test for older fillies and mares.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Crossing the finish line at odds of 18-1, this seven-year-old gelding shook up the world in more ways than one.
    Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
  • However, the 7-year-old gelding has won the track’s top summer grass race for older horses – the Grade II Del Mar Handicap – three straight years.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2025
Noun
  • The Del Mar Futurity, at 7 furlongs, also revolves around Baffert, whose colts have won the past four runnings and 18 of the past 29, dominance that began with Silver Charm winning the Futurity in a mild upset to jumpstart his journey to victory in the 1997 Kentucky Derby.
    Kevin Modesti, Oc Register, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The big colt was runner-up to Skippylongstocking in the G2 Gold Cup at Santa Anita and could factor underneath at a price.
    Jared Welch, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • And coupled with Bottle of Rouge’s upset victory Saturday in the Del Mar Debutante – Baffert’s 12th win in the fillies’ 2-year-old championship race – Baffert has now swept the juvenile titles two straight years and eight times since 1996.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
  • In 1988 his filly Winning Colors became only the third filly to win the Kentucky Derby.
    Neil Milbert, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • Horses — selectively bred by humans over millennia — lack this response and will just keep pumping out foals.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 31 July 2025
  • The first foal to reach the shore receives a special title—either King or Queen Neptune, depending on its gender—and is given away via a raffle.
    Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • Ride bareback on a steed into the Indian Ocean with the popular Swimming with Horses activity, try healing equine therapy with the gentle creatures or partake in yoga, massage or reiki that all involve horses.
    Jennifer Kester, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But for all its stylistic brio and an overall mesmerizing look, in which even throwaway visuals (like the icy corpse of a solider frozen to his battlefield steed) sear themselves into your memory, Frankenstein remains the simple, direct story of a man and his nonbiological offspring.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Falsified results from the UK's equine lab The university also released a 32-page internal audit investigation that found Stanley falsified test results, failed to disclose outside work and mismanaged lab operations.
    Stephanie Kuzydym, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Ride bareback on a steed into the Indian Ocean with the popular Swimming with Horses activity, try healing equine therapy with the gentle creatures or partake in yoga, massage or reiki that all involve horses.
    Jennifer Kester, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025

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