Females with manes

Usage examples of mares.

The red mare waded on through the press, exchanging greetings with stallions and mares, all of whom fell back respectfully before her, even as fellows behind them crowded forward.

Jan saw elders, mares and stallions in their prime, half-growns, colts and fillies, foals.

The two mares quarreled, cajoled, discussed and reconciled, each seeking to convince the other to join her.

Others were just emerging from the long grass, mares leading, stallions trotting behind.

The northernmost reach of the Plain, which lay beyond the Hallow Hills, was warm enough, Calydor informed him, for mares to bear their young in any season.

Among the herd, mares conceived only during that season which yielded a spring delivery.

You got foals on two different mares, and the first mare still living?

Such must be the birthplace of the sun, he mused, whence mares of smoke and stallions of fire blazed forth to charge heaven.

Tek watched the figures moving up the hill toward her, colts and fillies frisking still, the mares moving more leisurely.

On the morrow, Tek and her warriors press on, leaving behind colts and fillies too young to fight, elders too frail, nursing mares and the halt and infirm to shelter with us at oasis till your messengers return.

That was two months ago, just before the first of the pregnant mares reached her time.

The sounds of the night rang in his ears: the wet panting of the dogs, the crop and step of mares in the paddock beyond the ditch, the whicker of a nursing foal, and far out and once only the call of an owl to its young and a single high squeak in return.

Even so, one of the mares had panicked and kicked a hole in the planking not far above the water line and the entire crew, mac Calma included, had been called to put their backs into baling to keep the merchantman afloat for the last leagues of the journey.

Now in its third year, it boasted two hundred breeding mares with eight stud horses, all in use.

We had plans to put him to twenty different mares in his first season.