LARGEST AND SMALLEST HORSES.

New Zealand Mail, 21 July 1892, Page 6

LARGEST AND SMALLEST HORSES.

(LIVE STOCK JOURNAL.) In the Journal of April 1, p. 331, a horse standing 19 hands high is mentioned, and the query is asked. ‘ Has this record of a horsa’s size ever been exceeded ? ’ This subject has lately interested the writer, who has collected a lew authentic cases which may interest the querest, and ho has appended a few additional records of the ‘smallest’ hor.se. A Toledo (Ohio, XJ.S.A.) living mare standing 20 hands was lately mentioned in the Chicago Horseman. Jumbo, owned by a Sabin Rock, Conn., shipbuilder, is perhaps the tallest we have recently noted. He stands nearly 21 hands high. His weight, is, however, only 1,7001 b. He has dragged with ease a load of 2 tons. He is gentle and likes children. He oats 8 p cks of oat 3 at each meal, and enn-su-ues 2001 b of hay every week. His shoes are of great size and weigh 41b each There is an enliro lialf-Perchoron halfShiro horse, six years old, named General Braddock, owned in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, which stands 20 hands. _ He is a capital mover, symmetrically built, and of equal strength of bone. His saddle girth is 7ft I in. Another Clydesdale horse, owned at Council Grove, Kan., stands 20 hands at five years old. He weighs 3,0001 b, and measures lift Bin in length, He is quite docile. Ed. Corrigan is a well-known horse owned by Porter Ashe in California. He stands 17 hands lin, and weighs 1,4001 b, He won

| the Sheridan Stakes at Washington Part . in 1886, carrying 1181 b, one mile and a quarter, in 2.09 min. Many of the fastest trotters and pacers are really much smaller than the public suppose. Raney Hanks is 15 hands lin high, and weighed recently 8401 b. Jay-Bye-See is scant 15 hands, and used to weigh 7601 b. Compare with these horses the diminutive ponies of the Shetland breed lately seen at the Chicago Horse Show. Wee Wee was 23in high, with a weight of scarce 50lb. _ Wy Wy was 25in high. Youatt mentions it as having been no uncommon occurrence to carry to market a pony in the space below the seat of a Scotch gig- At the present time the Shah of Persia is the owner of a Shetland pony which is but high. This royal pet wears gold shoes worth 4 gs. each. A wonderful little animal, the ‘ Sheltio.’ He is verily the pet pit horse.