Recent Examples on the WebThe Grade 3 $200,000 Whitmore, honoring the gelding trained by native Arkansan Ron Moquett, remains on the schedule March 18 at six furlongs.Arkansas Online, 29 July 2022 Lenny came to Rhode Island by way of Connecticut in 2012, when Julie and Jack Kliever needed a horse after the sudden and devastating death of Ted, half of a two-brother Percheron gelding team. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022 Lenny, also a Percheron gelding, is tall (17.2 hands in horse terms) and gleaming white with kind, dark eyes, and thick white lashes. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022 The Preakness Stakes will be contested for the l47th time, and around 6 p.m. CDT Saturday, a colt, a filly or a gelding will be the winner of one of the United States’ most prestigious thoroughbred events. Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 16 May 2022 Cypress Creek owner Kevin Moody also owns the one-eyed Kentucky Derby qualifier Un Ojo, a gelding sired by Laoban. Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 25 Apr. 2022 Trainer Ricky Courville said the gelding must have aggravated the injury during weekend preparations for the Preakness. Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2022 The one-eyed gelding has responded well since returning to the track at Churchill Downs, assistant trainer Clay Courville said. Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2022 The horse, an unraced 4-year-old gelding, collapsed with a catastrophic injury to his right front ankle. John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2021 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Old Norse geldingr, from gelda