Sampson (horse)

Sampson was a Shire horse gelding foaled in 1846 in Toddington Mills, Bedfordshire, England. He was the tallest and heaviest horse ever recorded.

Sampson, owned by Thomas Cleaver, stood 21.2 1⁄2 hands (86.5 inches, 220 cm) high by the time he was four years old, when he was renamed Mammoth.

His peak weight was estimated at 3,360 lb (1,524 kg).[1] He was gelded at approximately one and a half years old, and his testicles were already the size of footballs.[2]

References

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