{{short description|American Thoroughbred racehorse}} {{Infobox thoroughbred racehorse | horsename = Colstar | image = | caption = | sire = Opening Verse | grandsire = The Minstrel | dam = Ascend | damsire = Risen Star | sex = Filly | foaled = 1996 | country = United States | colour = Bay | breeder = Beverley R. Steinman | owner = Beverley R. Steinman | trainer = | record = 18: 11-2-1 | earnings = $1,053,056 | race = Martha Washington Stakes (1999)<br>Gallorette Handicap (2000)<br>Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes (2000)<br>Locust Grove Handicap (2000, 2001)<br>All Along Stakes (2001) | awards= | honours = | updated= October 8, 2007 }} '''Colstar''' (foaled 1996 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. Sired by the 1991 Breeders' Cup Mile winner, Opening Verse, she was out of the mare Ascend, a daughter of Preakness and Belmont Stakes winner, Risen Star.
Racing in Maryland, Colstar's first important win came in 1999, in the Grade III Martha Washington Stakes, following by a win the next year in the Gallorette Handicap. Her other racing successes includes back-to-back wins in the Locust Grove Handicap at Churchill Downs and the Grade I Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes at Belmont Park.
Retired to broodmare duty, Colstar has produced four unraced offspring to date.
==References== * [http://www.pedigreequery.com/colstar Colstar's pedigree and partial racing stats]
Category:1996 racehorse births Category:Thoroughbred family 1-n Category:Racehorses bred in Kentucky Category:Racehorses trained in the United States