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

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

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