Filly
This article is about horses. Filly is also a small village in the
Ardennes in
Belgium.
A filly is a young female horse too young to be called a mare. There are several specific definitions in use.
- In most cases filly is a female horse under the age of four years old.
- In some nations, such as the United Kingdom and the United States, the world of horse racing sets the cutoff age for fillies as younger than five years.[1][2]
The equivalent term for a male is a colt. When horses of either sex are less than one year of age, they are referred to as foals.[3] Horses between one and two years of age may also be called yearlings.
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