a racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth
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an animal in its second year
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Yearling \Year"ling\, n. [Year + -ling.] An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; -- applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses.
Yearling \Year"ling\, a. Being a year old. ``A yearling bullock to thy name small smoke.'' --Pope.
'He stared quietly into the yearling's eye,' writes Robinson.
'You could have bought him as a yearling for Dollars 30,000. Now he'll probably be syndicated for upwards of Dollars 2m to go back to Kentucky.
He was sitting on a four-year-old that cost Pounds 760,000 as a yearling.
It must be a good sign that it is the birthplace of the first Pounds 1m yearling (Trojan Prince). The farm has two cottages, a top quality yard and 72 acres of smartly railed paddocks.
Brophy et al. bought Strike The Gold from Calumet in a package with six well-bred yearling fillies, and put them all in Zito's hands.
Police shot and killed the yearling, which was bleeding to death from its cuts from jumping through the window of a three-bedroom apartment in the suburb of Pukinmaki, about five miles from the city center, newspapers said.
That was far below the record $13.1 million paid for a 1985 yearling.