(Do you think this picture is
fake?)
It’s lucky he’s such a good-natured
beast.
Because if this horse turned grumpy,
there’s no way a petite woman armed with a rope could hold him back.
Standing 20.2 hands - that’s 6ft 10in -
at the shoulder and weighing 200 stone, Poe is the tallest horse in the world,
according to owner Shereen Thompson.
Mane attraction: Clydesdale Poe with 5ft 3in tall owner
Shereen Thompson in Tupperville, Ontario in Canada
Inching above his rivals: Poe, shown here with another
horse on the Canadian farm, stands at 20.2 hands
The Clydesdale is 2in bigger than the
horse from Texas currently listed in the Guinness Book of Records, she believes
- and dwarfs her own 5ft 3in frame.
He lives on Miss Thompson’s farm in
Tupperville, Ontario, in Canada.
Poe - who is 10ft tall with his head
held high - needs two bales of hay a day, 10lb of grain and 75 gallons of water.
Miss Thompson rescued Poe - named after
her favourite writer, Edgar Allen Poe - in February 2008.
Neigh high: Ms Thompson, who is just 5ft 3in, is dwarfed
by the gentle giant
He used to work in the city of London, Ontario, hauling crates of Budweiser - ‘rather like
the horses of Youngs Brewery used to in London, England,' Miss Thompson
explained.
The ten-year-old has since become a
firm favourite at local fairs - where she said he behaves like ‘a real puppy’.
‘But he does sometimes forget his
strength and drags me along if he wants to play or go chasing something,’ she
added.
Giddy up... and up and up: Poe, eats two bales of hay a
day, gallops through the fields
Clydesdale horses were first bred in
what was then Clydesdale, now Lanarkshire, in the mid-18th century.
They usually stand at around 5ft 4in at
the shoulder.