9 special horses

All horses are noble and beautiful animals, but among them there are special …

1. The fastest horse

Many believe that the fastest horses are Arabian. However, this is misleading. The representatives of the English thoroughbred riding breed firmly hold the palm. And the record holder among these sprinters is the stallion Beach Rekit, who reached a speed of 69,69 km / h over a distance of 410 meters. On average, thoroughbred riding horses develop a speed of about 60 km / h over short distances.

2. The tallest horse

Sampson, a Shire (English draft) stallion, is recognized as the tallest horse in the world. His height was 220 cm. Sampson lived in the century before last (born in England in 1846), but his record has not yet been broken. This heroic horse weighed one and a half tons.

3. The heaviest horse

The weight record holder is a Belgian horse named Big Jake. With a height of 217 cm, its weight exceeds 2,5 tons.

4. The smallest horse

This inch of the horse world bears the name of Tumbelin and has a height of 43 cm and a weight of 26 kg. In 2006, she took an honorable place in the Guinness Book of Records. The horse lives on a farm in St. Louis (Missouri, USA).

5. The oldest horse

In matters of longevity, the pedestal is again captured by the inhabitants of Foggy Albion. Horse Old Billy, born in 1760, lived to be 62 years old. And he worked, dragging barges, almost all his life! Old Billy’s skull is in the Manchester Museum.

On average, horses live 25 to 30 years.

6. The strongest horse

At an exhibition in Wembley (Great Britain), the Vulcan heavy truck showed a “jerk” of 29,47 tons on the dynamometer. This record was set on April 23, 1924.

7. The most jumping horses

A horse named Guaso from Chile holds the world record for high jump. On February 5, 1949, he managed to overcome the barrier with a height of 2,47 m.

A horse named Samsing set a record for long jump. In 1975, jumping over a moat in Johannesburg (South Africa), he overcame 8,40 m.

8. The most expensive horse

Frankel, a handsome chestnut English Thoroughbred, is the best racehorse. Its estimated cost is $200 million.

9. The most maned horse

The stallion Linus is recognized as the record holder for “hairiness”. This four-legged dandy of “glossy chestnut-gold color with a delicate linen-colored mane and tail” has long grown an object of master’s pride. As a result, the mane was 4,27 meters long, and the tail – 3,66 meters!