Filly
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A three month old American Warmblood filly
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, the world of horse racing sets the cutoff age for fillies as younger than five years.[1]
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.[2] Horses between one and two years of age may also be called yearlings.
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[edit] References
- ^ Hammond, Gerald (2000). The Language of Horse Racing. London: Taylor & Francis. p. 79. ISBN 1579582761. OCLC 44923115. http://books.google.com/books?id=CJ4zH2P_6mMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=colt&ei=P3QLSNqAAZy4iQGi7Z2iAQ&sig=y022yqRPEjMDxz2qZBmIIGfPSFU#PPA49,M1.
- ^ James R Gillespie (2000), Modern Livestock and Poultry Production, Thomson Delmar Learning, ISBN 0766816079, http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0766816079&id=_yVilNaM4z0C&pg=PA645&lpg=PA645&ots=vqmXtDvPcc&dq=Filly+definition+horse&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=H2saO_rR3KUS1do4_sMH5uXa0qw

