Hitching post... Painted in the 'colors' of the racing stable, whose owners keep this Summer house.
For non-racing people... Those different colored clothes which jockeys wear, when racing, are the 'colors' or the 'racing silks' of the stable, which owns the particular horse he is riding.
This is a simpler hitching post.
Another simpler one... Out front of a house, which is not presently owned by a racing family.
