Youngsters in a stable environment

Usage examples of foals.

There was a scattering of mares and foals in the distance in the paddocks, mostly heads down to the grass, sniffing out the last tender shoots of the dying year.

He led me into a sitting room, which was also office, the walls thickly covered with framed photographs of horses, mares and foals, and the window giving on to a view of, across a further expanse of gravel, an archway leading into an extensive stable yard.

They have to foal here, because the foals would be too delicate straight after birth to travel.

I breed him to my own mares, and sell the resulting foals as yearlings.

Oliver Knowles pointing out to me various mares and foals of interest and distributing carrots to any head within armshot.

I know of one stud farm in America that lost seventy foals in one day.

Judith asked, and Oliver without hesitation told her it was because the foals had to stay with their dams, and the mares with foals in the boxes were due to come into heat, or were already in heat, and would go from their boxes to visit the stallion.

Ginnie to show them the mares and foals in the paddocks and then take them indoors for tea.

Watcherleys look after any delicate foals or any mares with infections.

Puts them at a disadvantage as two-year-olds, racing against March and April foals that have had more growing time.

To me there was now a visible thinning out of numbers, and Oliver, with hardly a quiver in his voice, said that he was sending the mares home with their foals in an orderly progression as usual, with in consequence lower feed bills, fewer lads to pay wages to, smaller expenses all round: he would play fair with the bank, he said, matter-of-factly, making sure to charge what he could and also to conserve what he could towards his debt.

Say that in the passsage of time his good foals proved to be worth the fifty-percent risk.

Sandcastle, who would thereafter always sire perfect foals, and gradually climb back into favor.

Sandcastle had already covered many new mares that year before the deformed foals had been reported.

Sandcastle himself was a rock-solid investment, and that any foals already born perfect would not be carrying any damaging genes.