- Old Billy
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Billy's taxidermied head on display in Bedford Museum
Old Billy (AKA: Billy Boy or Billy) Not to be confused with the Quarter horse of the same name was the longest-lived horse on record. Old Billy was verified[citation needed] to be 62 at his death. Born in England in 1760, he lived as a barge horse that pulled barges up and down canals. Old Billy was said to look like a big cob/shire horse. He was black with a white blaze. [1] On the 27th of November 1822 Billy died. His lithograph was published, showing Old Billy, with Henry Harrison, who had known the animal for fifty-nine years.
References
- ^ "The Mane Facts About Horse Health". HorseFacts.org. http://www.fbresearch.org/HorseFacts/Facts/. Retrieved 2009-01-16.[dead link]
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