weanling

Example Sentences

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“Everything about her looks like a weanling,” Smith said, referring to a horse under a year old.

From Washington Times

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

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

South Korean breeders had visited Maryland to attend a horse sale in conjunction with the Preakness Stakes, but they had never before been to the winter sale, which included a mix of brood mares, weanling horses that were born this year and some racing-age horses.

From Washington Post

Even as a weanling — a mere child, called the Littleprincessemma colt after his mother — American Pharoah took away the breath of Frances Rellihan, a seasoned horsewoman who had had her hands on thousands of colts over her career but to that point had never seen one so perfectly engineered, with an intricate mind to match his physical gifts.

From New York Times