filly

• This filly is a horse I would really love to see grow up on my farm. —  MiKael's Mania - Arabian Horses
• "But it sure looks like his filly is definitely the one to beat again Sunday."
• Nor did he conceal his chagrin when the filly was beaten by an imported Irish colt named Langford, owned by Captain Stockton, of the navy, and he had to pay lost wagers amounting to nearly a thousand dollars, while Mr. Van Buren and other devoted adherents who had bet on the filly were also losers Baillie Peyton, of Tennessee, used to narrate an amusing account of a visit which he made to the National Race Course with General Jackson and a few others to witness the training of some horses for an approaching race. —  Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
• "Diddlety--iddlety--idlety!" chanted the waiter with far-away sweetness Fanny Fitz and the ostler were outside the gate simultaneously: the filly was already rounding the first turn of the road; two strides more, and she was gone as though she had never been, and "Oh, my nineteen pounds!" —  All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches
• When they all went out to see the little, awkward, kicking colt in the big box stall, separated from its whinnying mother by a strong barred fence, the owner of the stables had laughingly named the filly after his sister But," Ida told them, "father told Aunt Ida that the filly was to be my property. —  Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp

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