The word 'foal' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a young horse, typically less than one year old. Example: The farmer's mare gave birth to a beautiful foal last night.
Because many mares conceive only every other year, expert assistance at foaling time is an absolute necessity, especially if the foal is sired by an expensive stallion out of a valuable mare.
In the bloodstock boom years of the 1980s, Northern Dancer commanded a fee of $1m per mating and there was no money back if the union failed to produce a live foal.
The contest between the two finest pugilists of the millennium delivered no knockout, no knockdowns, not even a furious exchange leaving a sturdy competitor wobbling like a baby foal.
The Americans admitted the incursions, which came during Foal Eagle, the largest annual joint American-South Korean military exercise, but said they were inadvertent.
If the horse proves to be good and sires winners then the price will rise; if the progeny is slow and idle the price will fall.However, in the early 1980s great advances were made in equine veterinary science; a mare can now be tested in foal at 16 days and there is little need for multiple coverings of one mare.
And unlike in other sports that can promote their stars for decades, casual fans who have just discovered American Pharoah will have only a handful of additional opportunities at most to see him run before he retires: given the risk of injury, he will be far more valuable at stud, where he could earn his owners, Zayat Stables, some $100,000 per foal.
Miuccia Prada, an Italian designer and longstanding Hirst collector, for example, spent £6.3m acquiring a trio of Mr Hirst's trademark animals in formaldehyde: "The Black Sheep with the Golden Horn", "False Idol" (a calf), and "The Dream" (a foal made to look like a unicorn).
The foal is weaned at six months.
Chapter 9, verses 9 10, with its reference to a king riding on the foal of an ass and to a vast kingdom of peace, was used by New Testament Gospel writers in reference to Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem prior to his crucifixion.
Even Darwin, as late as 1868, seriously discussed an alleged case of telegony: that of a mare mated to a zebra and subsequently to an Arabian stallion, by whom the mare produced a foal with faint stripes on his legs.
Because each foal is assigned an official birth date of January 1, to facilitate the age groups that define Thoroughbred races, it is important that mares foal as early as possible in the calendar year.
