yearling
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As a yearling, the colt didn’t meet his reserve price of $95,000, so Kahn and Hidden Brook pointed him to a 2-year-old in training sale last year at Ocala.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026
About half a dozen volunteers responded to the appeal and brought blankets and warm water for the yearling.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
When Flag is on the verge of becoming a yearling, Jody’s father says, “He’ll be like a person standin’ on the state line.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
The yearling would have barely made a sound as she trotted through brush and dry pine needles on an overgrown path that dropped into a steep canyon.
From National Geographic • Aug. 25, 2023
“How would a woman’s arrow kill a yearling impala?”
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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