New World’s Tallest Horse

He’s ten feet tall with his head upright, weighs 3,000lb, and stands at 20.2 hands at the shoulder. So is Poe the Clydesdale the world’s tallest horse? His diminutive owner Shereen Thompson thinks so - and said she wants to ‘get the Guinness guys here as soon as possible’. Poe stands 6ft 10in (80.2in) from hoof to shoulder.