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

One of Whitman’s exercise riders had asked her to buy an inexpensive weanling for him in lieu of what she owed him.

From New York Times • May 6, 2022

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

Her third, a weanling filly, died in a paddock accident.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2016

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