The stallion had smelled the mare coming into heat and began to paw the turf, shaking his head.

The mare began to tire and Clayton felt the spray of snow from the hoofs of Gavin's stallion.

The male parent of a horse, a stallion, is commonly known as the sire and the female parent, the mare, is called the dam.

) Though many horse owners may simply breed a family mare to a local stallion in order to produce a companion animal, most professional breeders use selective breeding to produce individuals of a given phenotype, or breed.

The estrous cycle ( also spelled oestrous ) controls when a mare is sexually receptive toward a stallion, and helps to physically prepare the mare for conception.

* Estrus, or Follicular, phase: 5 – 7 days in length, when the mare is sexually receptive to a stallion.

* Diestrus, or Luteal, phase: 14 – 15 days in length, the mare is not sexually receptive to the stallion.

Additionally, it causes behavioral changes in the mare, making her more receptive toward the stallion, and causes physical changes in the cervix, uterus, and vagina to prepare the mare for conception ( see above ).

* Progesterone: prevents conception and decreases sexual receptibility of the mare to the stallion.

A stallion, approaching with a high head, will usually nicker, nip and nudge the mare, as well as sniff her urine to determine her readiness for mating.

And by the stallion Svaðilfari, Loki is the mother — giving birth in the form of a mare — to the eight-legged horse Sleipnir.

The illuminating exception is the archaic and localised myth of the stallion Poseidon and mare Demeter at Phigalia in isolated and conservative Arcadia, noted by Pausanias ( 2nd century AD ) as having fallen into desuetude ; the violated Demeter was Demeter Erinys.

She spurned his advances, turning herself into a mare so that she could hide in a herd of horses ; he saw through the deception and became a stallion and captured her.

Horses organize themselves into small bands with a dominant mare at the top of the pecking order, as well as a resident stallion.

That night, the builder drove out to fetch stone with his stallion Svaðilfari, and out from a wood ran a mare.

* Mating of animals, e. g. a stallion covers a mare

In Norse mythology, Svaðilfari ( Old Norse " unlucky traveler ") is a stallion that fathered the eight-legged horse Sleipnir with Loki ( in the form of a mare ).

That night, the builder drove out to fetch stone with his stallion Svaðilfari, and out from a wood ran a mare.

In China in 1981, a hinny mare proved fertile with a donkey stallion.

In Morocco in 2003, a mule mare bred to a donkey stallion produced a male foal ; DNA testing revealed the foal has a mixed karyotype hybrid like the Chinese hinny offspring, Dragon Foal.

In one tale, Demeter transformed herself into a mare to escape Poseidon, but Poseidon counter-transformed himself into a stallion to pursue her, and succeeded in the rape.

In 1802 the stallion, Northumberland, and an English mare were imported, followed shortly thereafter by Washington, a stallion from America.

When Papa went out to do God's work, Stevie often accompanied him in the buggy, which was drawn by Violet, the new black mare.

Dubbed " Abu Hashim ", Nami was considered " gentle in manner " by his colleagues, and reported that he had a dream in which he rode a mare along with Muhammad, and that the prophet told him to dismount and fight his enemies to liberate his land.

She once had a neighbour's donkey castrated while looking after it, on the grounds of its " sexual harassment " of her own donkey and mare, for which she was taken to court by the donkey's owner in 1989.

The cycle is controlled by several hormones which regulate the estrous cycle, the mare's behavior, and the reproductive system of the mare.

When an early foal is desired, barn managers will put the mare " under lights " by keeping the barn lights on in the winter to simulate a longer day, thus bringing the mare into estrus sooner than she would in nature.

Dom Gianni at the instance of his gossip Pietro uses an enchantment to transform Pietro's wife into a mare ; but, when he comes to attach the tail, Gossip Pietro, by saying that he will have none of the tail, makes the enchantment of no effect.

All waters beyond national boundaries were considered international waters: free to all nations, but belonging to none of them ( the mare liberum principle promulgated by Grotius ).

The KKM 57 ( the Wankel rotary engine, Kreiskolbenmotor ) was constructed by NSU engineer Hanns Dieter Paschke in 1957 without the knowledge of Felix Wankel, who remarked " you have turned my race horse into a plow mare ".

More obscure terms for walking include " to go by Marrow-bone stage ", " to take one's daily constitutional ", " to ride Shanks ' pony ", " to ride Shanks ' mare ", or " to go by Walker's bus ".

Female zebras mature earlier than the males, and a mare may have her first foal by the age of three.

In addition to the aforementioned hypothesis, there is the theory that Marsala comes from mare salis, or rather " Salt ponds by the sea " for the presence of salt pond along the whole northern coast.

Attacking Spanish ships, even during peacetime, was part of a policy of military and economic competition with Spain-which had been monopolizing the maritime trade routes by enforcing a mare clausum policy along with the Portuguese-and helped provoke the first Anglo-Spanish War.

The famous Trundholm sun chariot ( called Solvognen in Danish ), a sculpture of the sun pulled by a mare.

Though Dattero di mare ( Lithophaga lithophaga ) was once eaten, overfishing drove it to the verge of extinction ( it takes 15 to 35 years to reach adult size and could only be harvested by smashing the calcarean rocks that form its habitat ) and the Italian government has declared it an endangered species since 1998 and its harvest and sale are forbidden.

Phipps and Hancock agreed to forgo stud fees for Bold Ruler ; instead, they would claim one of two foals produced by the mare he bred in successive seasons or two mares he bred in the same season.

At the beginning of the story, however, the Weirdstone has been lost, stolen centuries before by a farmer whose milk-white mare Cadellin had bought to complete the numbers in Fundindelve.

Alope left the infant in the open to die of exposure, but a passing mare suckled the child until it was found by shepherds, who fell into a dispute as to who was to have the beautiful royal attire of the boy.

She is associated with midsummer and the sun, and is sometimes represented by a red mare.

The Connacht army is routed, and Fergus bitterly remarks, " It is the usual thing for a herd led by a mare to be strayed and destroyed.

The mare material is thought to be about 5 km deep, giving the Imbrium Basin a total depth of 12 km ; it is thought that the original crater left by the Imbrium impact was as much as 100 km deep, but that the floor of the basin bounced back upwards immediately afterwards.