A colt is a stallion, usually under the age of four.
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The term "horse" only describes a young stallion and does not become confused with the foal, which is a sex horse less than a year old. Similarly, the age of a year is a horse of the sex between the ages of one and two years. A young mare is called a foal, and a mare once she is an adult animal. In horse racing, especially for British Flying horses, a male stallion is defined as a man who is not surveyed from the ages of two to and including the age of four.
An adult stallion if left intact is called a "stallion" or "horse" (sometimes a horse is full); if castrated, it is called kebiri. In some cases, especially informal nomenclature, the four-year-old horse is still called a horse. A rig or ridgling is a male stallion with a retained or incompletely castrated testis.
In the wild, stallions are driven from their herd by a herd of horses somewhere between the ages of one and two. This may be partly an instinct to prevent inbreeding. When expelled, they usually join another young horse in a bunch of bachelors. They stayed with the band until they were old enough to form their own horse herd. The term "rag" or "rake" has historically been used to refer to a group of colts, but they have fallen from modern usage.
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