weanling

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Dorman first met the horse during a Make-A-Wish visit to Godolphin’s Gainsborough Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, when Cody’s Wish was a 5-month-old weanling in 2018.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 6, 2023

When the weanling calves had reached 14 months and put on the required weight, Da decided it was time to sell them.

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2018

Smith has been around Ziconic a lot, starting when the colt was a weanling, and has seen him develop.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2016

In 2006 at Keeneland, a weanling colt was sold for $2.7 million.

From Forbes • Nov. 6, 2014

What’s a wind to me?I can see up the street here, if they come—They do not come!—Oh! my poor weanling lambs—Struck dead by carrion ravens!What then, I have borne worse. 

From The Saint's Tragedy by Kingsley, Charles