Record Setting Equine
POYNETTE, Wis. (AP) - April 30, 2010
The 9-year-old Belgian gelding is the Guinness World
Record-holder for world's tallest living horse at one quarter inch
short of 6-feet, 11 inches.
That's 2.75 inches taller than the previous record-holder, a
Clydesdale from Texas named Remington.
Gilbert and his family own Smokey Hollow Farm near Poynette,
Wisconsin. He usually shows Big Jake as a draft horse in four-or
six-horse hitches and he raises money for the Ronald McDonald
House.
Gilbert says Big Jake, who weighs about 2,600 pounds, is good
with people and even likes to goof off. He says people are
astonished when they see just how big he is.
