WORLD'S TINIEST RACEHORSE

Evening Star, Issue 22517, 9 December 1936, Page 3

WORLD'S TINIEST RACEHORSE

DAINTY WEE PET IS 2.31- INCHES HIGH AND WEIGHS 36 PODNDS. AT DUNEDIN SHOW, A perfect miniature racehorse, the size of a dog, is on exhibition at the show. It is perfect in every detail. His mother and father are ordinary size racehorses, the mother being 15J hands and the father 16 hands high. His name is Wee Jimmy, and he comes from Buenos Aires (South America). If you were to see it you would wonder how two perfectly ordinary, though thoroughbred, parents could breed so minute a horse. It is nothing less than marvellous. He is carried on the railway at dog’s rate, and travels in a beer case. In order to satisfy his dainty appetite, his feed costs on the average 2s 6d per week. Shoes are not made _ “ ready_ to wear ” for Jimmy’s minute size. Jimmy’s shoes have to he made out of gold—so delicate have they to be; and when he needs a new pair of shoes he is motored to the leading jewellers, who weigh out six ounces of pure gold to make the shoes to fit his dainty hoofs, which are the size of a half-crown. Wee Jimmy can walk «nderneath any pony or foal living. . , 91236