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A broodmare. Note slight distension of belly, indicating either early pregnancy or recent foaling. A mare is an adult female horse or other equine. [1] In most cases, a mare is a female horse over the age of three, and a filly is a female horse three and younger. In Thoroughbred horse racing, a mare is defined as a female horse more
In 1993, a major race at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, was named in her honor, but from 2012 [4] it was known as the Zenyatta Stakes, after the 2010 American Horse of the Year who won that race in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Lady's Secret Drive in Del Rayo Estates, Rancho Santa Fe, California, where her owner lived, was also named in her ...
On the other hand, some breeders, particularly those in remote areas or with extremely large numbers of horses, may allow mares to foal out in a field amongst a herd, but may also see higher rates of foal and mare mortality in doing so. Most mares foal at night or early in the morning, and prefer to give birth alone when possible. Labor is ...
A foal at about weaning age. A foal is an equine up to one year old; this term is used mainly for horses, but can be used for donkeys. More specific terms are colt for a male foal and filly for a female foal, and are used until the horse is three or four. When the foal is nursing from its dam (mother), it may also be called a "suckling".
Live foal guarantee is a common provision in horse breeding contracts.It is a form of a warranty offered to the mare owner by the stallion owner. Basically, it says that if the mare fails to produce a live foal from the breeding, the stallion owner will breed the same mare again without charging another stud fee.
Alpha Z sired his first foal, a chestnut colt named "Guns n' D'Ive Z", in 2014, who was registered as a Zangersheide. The foal was out of the Zangersheide mare Delizia d’Ive Z (b. 2004), by the Belgian Warmblood show jumping stallion Darco (b. 1980) out of the Belgian Warmblood mare Radetsky (by Chin Chin, a 1978 Holsteiner show jumping ...
At the time, she was in foal to Chef-de-Race Gainsborough. She was purchased by Colonel E. R. Bradley of the Idle Hour Stock Farm in Lexington, Kentucky and exported to the US in 1931. [4] The Gainsborough filly was born deformed and had to be killed. La Troienne produced 14 named foals.
California Chrome, sired by Lucky Pulpit and out of Love the Chase, was foaled on February 18, 2011, [1] at Harris Farms near Coalinga, California, the horse breeding division of the Harris Ranch. [11] Steve Coburn said he had a dream not long before California Chrome's birth that the foal would be a colt with four white feet and a blaze. [36]