Morocco, Percheron/Arab cross, 21.2h
(The world’s smallest horse is here)
How big can a horse get?! Well, here’s your answer. 😉 Morocco, shown at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, measured 21.2 hands (7’2″ or 2.18m) and weighed 2835 pounds, while a Shire named Samson (alive sometime during the 1850s) weighed in at 21.2-1/2h and 3360 pounds. According to the Guinness Book, the current record holder is Priefert’s Radar, a Belgian gelding standing 19.3-1/2 hands (that’s 6’7-1/2″ or just over 2.01m) and weighing 2400 pounds. Aren’t you glad these animals are herbivores?! More info is available at Rural Heritage.
Priefert’s Radar, Belgian gelding, 19.3-1/2h
Update: there may be a challenger to the title! Link via BoingBoing.
Update 2007-03-14: Article and video of Radar at the *cough* Daily Mail.
Bridlepath 
Woweee I love that Belgian 😀
wow can you imagine the size / output of the poop you’d have to clean up PLUS the amount of feed OMG. And wormers!!! Three wormers per horse. Yikes!
I try to imagine what picking out their feet must be like–like holding a soup bowl! 😉
Yeah try trimming their feet…they’re as heavy as bowling balls…I have one percheron that’s 18.3 hh; another that’s 18 hh and a 17.2 TB and little morgan and little rescue stallion. it makes trimming the smaller horses a picnic.
And the worlds smallest is only 18.5″ high – compared to these giants of over 6′!
Phil Tragear
http://www.horsetrainingsuccess.blogspot.com/
OK, why are so many people Googling for “world’s largest horses”? Not that I’m complaining, I’m just curious. 🙂
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Interestingly the photo you show at the top has always been attributed as “A Percheron called Dr. Le Gear attained 21 hands and 3,940 pounds. (1903) ” in every other publication I can find. Does this mean maybe that the horse was really called Morocco and maybe the owner was Dr Le Gear??
Viv, that’s a good question! I found the photo here:
http://www.ruralheritage.com/horse_paddock/horse_large_mo.htm
It’s not uncommon for a horse to have its owner’s name: Justin Morgan and his son the Woodbury Morgan, Beautiful Jim Key, etc.
*speachless* i dont know how in the world a horse can get that big. They are gorgeous…. I want a horse like taht.. it would be my baby for ever! I am litterally amazed….. wow
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i’d hate to get stepped on by one of those guys..
I saw this in the paper this morning.
And to think, just a few months ago I NEARLY owned a 19.3 Clydesdale gelding…!!
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wow he is amazing how did he get so big i would love to be galloping around on him.
I’ve seen bigger Clydesdale’s
What a beautiful Belgian, Draft Horses are so pretty.
my mom says it is realy fun to ride big horses. i wouldn’t know because ziggy died before i finnished learning. is it.
His name sin’t Radar it’s Samson. I saw him at the southfloridafair. He si 19 hands hight he’s a Belgian gelding the horses of his kind are not that big he’s he biggest horse IN THE WORLD!!! I cant beleive i saw him in person and also CarlsosX you can’t have seen a bigger Clydesdale its IMPOSSIBLE plain and simply IMPOSSIBLE. iM not trying to be mean its just a fact if u saw him in person like i did you would know
sorry guys in my comments above the first word thats misspelled is supposed 2 be isn’t then the 2nd word misspelled is is 3rd is high just wanted to let everyone know
hi i have a belgan gelding that stands right at 20 hands and weights 2600lb s he is coming 10 yrs old this summer we hope to have him weighing close to 2850lbs we are going to take him to the national belgan show in september
in indianapolis to challenge radar for the worlds tallest this horse is huge
bob hedmark
I love huge horses, they are my favourite to ride, i just personally wounder how much a year these must eat!!!:O
Wow! What a horse!
wow what a horse!! i have a Clydsale named Cammie and she isnt NEARLY that big!!
Ok i just bought a HUGE Percheron at an auction. The poor thing is malnurished (thats the reason i bought him) HE WAS ONLY 18K!!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT!!!!! awsome!!!!!!
Radar is gorgeous. I took my kids to see him last night at the local Orschelns’ store. He’s huge! My two-year-old- son thought it was the neatest thing he’d ever seen. If you ever get a chance to see Radar, do it. It was really fun.
They said he eats 18 pounds of grain per day and drinks 20 gallons of water per day. I can’t remember how much hay they said he eats as well.
And by the way, the horse’s name really is Radar, not samson. Someone who posted that must have seen a different horse.
PIcking their feret would be like holdong a 20lb dinnerplate!
i think he eats 40lbs or hay
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Hollie Cow they r bigg but ther is one in Australia that is 20.1 hh
and is a Percherone
im not sure how to spell it but anyways they get HUGE lol
Southurn Rose Buggy Tours has Duke. Duke is a Belgian draft that ways about 2650 and is 19 and 3/4 hands tall. Check out the website at http://www.southurnrose.com.
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Love it much!!!! My darlin Golden Nugget is only a itty bitty pony next to those hulking hunks but he can sure hold his own in the gorgeous category. lol anybody wanna trade pics with me? He looks a bit like a mini Radar but with a white star on his forehead.
thats a huge horse
Big Horse Alright.
Oh. i wouldn’t say that. I’ve seen bigger
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laughing my head off because I have a huge Belgian and huge black Percheron as well. No fun to trim their feet.