Sampson (horse)

Sampson, a Shire horse gelding foaled in 1846 in Toddington Mills, Bedfordshire, England, is the tallest horse ever recorded.

Sampson, owned by Mr Thomas Cleaver, stood 21.2½ hands high (i.e. 7 ft 2½in or approx 2.2m at his withers) by the time he was a four year old, when he was re-named Mammoth.

His peak weight was estimated at 3,360 lb (1,520 kg).^[1] He was gelded at approximately 1 and a half years old, and his testicles were already the size of softballs.^[2]

References

1. ^ Whitaker The Horse p. 60
2. ^ Encyclopedia of the Horse, Norris, Carlos R., 1998, p. 174.

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