Filly
A three-month-old American Warmblood foal
A Fjord horse filly with her dam (mother)
A filly is a young female horse too young to be called a mare. There are two specific definitions in use.
- In most cases filly is a female horse under the age of four years.
- 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.
See also
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- Filly Triple Crown
- Weanling
References
- ↑ Hammond, Gerald (2000). The Language of Horse Racing. London: Taylor & Francis. p. 79. ISBN 1-57958-276-1. OCLC 44923115.
- ↑ Privman, Jay (October 24, 2008). "Zenyatta completes perfect season". Daily Racing Form (Breeders' Cup). Retrieved September 7, 2011.
It was the perfect end to a perfect day by a perfect filly. Zenyatta, the best older female horse in the country, completed a perfect season. . . by winning the $2 million Ladies' Classic on Friday at Santa Anita's Oak Tree meeting, the first of two days of the 25th Breeders' Cup championships.
(Zenyatta was foaled in 2004, making her a 4-year-old at the time.) - ↑ James R Gillespie (2000). Modern Livestock and Poultry Production. Thomson Delmar Learning. ISBN 978-0-7668-1607-7.