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Recent Examples of foal
Budweiser’s iconic Clydesdales are back in this Super Bowl spot which shows a foal determined to help with a delivery despite its youth.
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Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Feb. 2025
Do kids learning English as a second language know that a foal is a baby horse?
—Kelly Stuart, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
Ridley tries to warn her dad that what’s going on isn’t right, and Elliot finally realizes it late in the game, when the entitled and very bro-y Shepard Leopold (Will Poulter) uses Ridley and the dead foal as bait to capture the other unicorns.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025
When people notice the hundreds of horse deaths (specifically, 369 racehorse deaths at Maryland tracks since 2014), $400 million (including taxpayer subsidies) funneled to decrepit tracks or perhaps the decreasing attendance, allowances, starts, purses, and foal crop?
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2025
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There’s no better example of that than in the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Classic, featuring the unbeaten mare Zenyatta.—
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The book warns that cheese made from dog milk would cause a woman to deliver her baby prematurely and also notes that in some places, cheese was made from the milk of camels, mares and donkeys.—
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Trainer Michael McCarthy was not available to talk to reporters Sunday but praised his colt’s effort to rally into the lead briefly before Sovereignty, the 7-1 third choice, overtook him in the stretch and won by 1 1/2 lengths.—
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The brown colt, a tribute to guitarist Sixto Rodriguez, is trained by Bob Baffert, the sport’s most infamous titan.—
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While left alone for an hour, the younger sibling ignored all warnings and put Willow in the stallion's paddock.—
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But even we weren’t prepared for the moment when Lady Jane Grey (Emily Bader) discovers that her handsome new husband, Lord Guildford Dudley (Edward Bluemel), is a stallion.—
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In this year's Derby, Hernandez will be riding Burnham Square, the bay gelding who won last month's Blue Grass Stakes in Kentucky and Florida's Holy Bull Stakes in February and was given 12-1 odds in the morning line.—
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Averill got started in horse racing the same year that Werth was cashing in on U.S. Jets, partnering on a gelding named Fun n’ Gun that year.—
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The horse race is for 3-year-old fillies on Friday, a prelude to the Preakness.—
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The favorite in this year’s field is Good Cheer, an undefeated filly going for her seventh win in Friday’s Grade 1 gallop.—
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“Foal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foal. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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