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filly

noun as in colt

noun as in foal

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noun as in horse

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Saturday’s win helped both claim rare weekend sweeps of the Derby and Kentucky Oaks for fillies.

The party usually gets started well before the main event: On Friday, a crowd watched a race for fillies, the Kentucky Oaks.

The filly went wire to wire in the 150th Kentucky Oaks on Friday, pulling away from a charging Just F Y I to win by 4 3/4 lengths in the slop at Churchill Downs.

The owner later managed to get ahold of the two mares and filly and take them to Montana.

The zebras’ owner, Kristine Keltgen, found the fourth animal — a filly — and returned her to the trailer by Sunday evening, the report states.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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