colthood

The old horse, whose hair was of the roughness and color of heather, whose leg-joints, shoulders, and hoofs were distorted by harness and drudgery from colthood — though if all had their rights, he ought, symmetrical in outline, to have been picking the herbage of some Eastern plain instead of tugging here — had trodden this road almost daily for twenty years.

The Woodlanders 2006

Now as Lance had wanted this stallion to retain its spirit, my mount to be had been permitted the daily freedom of the open range far into his colthood – and beyond.

Archive 2006-08-27 Miss Snark 2006

He ran as he had never run in all of his life as a racehorse, ran as if he raced in freedom across the sweet, soft meadows of his colthood and not the hard pavements of the city.

The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001

Teyva here suffered from a fear of flying ever since colthood.

The Time of the Transference Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987

Either he had lost confidence in his owner, or some escapade of his colthood had come to his memory.

How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long

The naturally docile filly responded to the voice she had heard from earliest colthood and soon let Elizabeth approach close enough to put her hand on the bit.

The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger

Even now, when the top of the hill was gained, and he knew that he was within a mile of the stable which had been his home since colthood, he showed no undue haste or impatience, but waited quietly, until Frient Mitchenor, by a well-known jerk of the lines, gave him the signal to go on.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

Even in colthood the foot, if neglected, may become a source of trouble.

Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks

He noted plenty of small ones but their short, bushy tails revealed colthood.

David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story George S. Harney

Arabian trained by myself from colthood to do my bidding -- in a pine thicket close by.

The Rose of Old St. Louis Mary Dillon