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

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

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

All his life He has had some weanling truth to guard, has fought Desperately to defend it, taking cover Wherever he could, behind old fallen trees Of superstition, or ruins of old thought.

From Watchers of the Sky by Noyes, Alfred