broodmare
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of broodmare
Example Sentences
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“I think our broodmare band was about 115 horses and my dad’s goal was to get to a more boutique size,” Bushnell said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2024
The princess recalled being told some years ago that the queen even had an iPad to enable her to watch her future racehorses being born in the broodmare stables.
From Reuters • Sep. 16, 2022
In her new book on the monarchy, “The Palace Papers,” former New Yorker editor Tina Brown dishes that the queen’s wedding gift to her son Charles, when he married Camilla Parker Bowles, was a broodmare.
From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2022
Monomoy Girl will return to Spendthrift Farm in Lexington to become a broodmare, though her breeding plans were not immediately known.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2021
One or two persons are this very year going to Europe for the sole purpose of importing horses of high reputation: a larger sort of broodmare would, I think, be of more service to them.
From Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Power, Tyrone
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