weanling

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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

But they had never before been to the winter sale, which included a mix of brood mares, weanling horses that were born earlier this year and some racing-age horses.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 16, 2017

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

The previous record of $2.6 million for a weanling filly was set at Keeneland’s 2011 November sale by Besilu Stables.

From Forbes • Nov. 6, 2014

A less-trained eye would have seen only the daub, just as a poor judge of horse-flesh might see only awkward joints and long legs in a weanling colt, though it be bred in the purple.

From The Call of the Cumberlands by Buck, Charles Neville