Filly

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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, 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.

On June 9, 2007, Rags to Riches became the first filly to win the Belmont Stakes since 1905.[3]

See also

Look up filly in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

References

  1. ^ 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. 
  2. ^ 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 
  3. ^ The Associated Press (2007-06-09). "Girl power: Rags to Riches first filly to win Belmont since 1905". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved on 2007-06-09.
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