Wednesday, April 28, 2010

  Smallest Horse - world record set by Einstein Horse

  BARNSTEAD, New Hampshire, USA -- Einstein Horse , a pinto stallion horse (owned by Dr Rachel Wagner and Charles Cantrell of Bellingham) weighed just 6 pounds (2.7kg) and measured 14 inches (35.5cm) tall - setting the new world record for the Smallest Horse .

 Photo: Einstein Horse, the World's Smallest Horse . Photo by By Jim Cole, AP ( enlarge photo )

  "We've been at this for 20 years and I've never seen one this small — never," Judy Smith, owner of Tiz A Miniature Horse Farm in Barnstead, N.H., told the Boston Herald. The average miniature horse foal stands 21 inches tall at birth and weighs 18 pounds.

  Einstein’s co-owners, Rachel Wagner and Charles Cantrell of Bellingham, Washington, hale the horse as a miracle and say that the miniature horse was also not premature and was actually born three days later then his due date.

  Rachel Wagner, the co-owner of the World's Smallest Horse said “Most of the ones that are really tiny are what we call dwarves and have some sort of dysmorphic features. This little guy is like all horses he’s almost all leg, he is very perfect looking little boy and not dwarfy looking at all.” Hot-Affiliates Ads Advertise on this page.  

The World's Smallest Horse which was named Einstein by it’s owners was born at Barnstead, New Hampshire, North East of the United States on the Tiz A Miniature horse farm and was thought to have been dead when it was first born.

   The previous Guinness world record holder for the Smallest Horse was Thumbelina, a horse classed as a dwarf horse weighed 8.5lb (3.8 kg), is currently 17.5-inch (44.5cm) and entered the Guinness Book of Records in 2006.

   What makes Einstein different then the previous Guinness World Record holder for the smallest horse in the world is that he is not a dwarf. He is as healthy as the other horses at the ranch it’s owners say except that Einstein is like the miniature version.

Einstein, the Smallest Horse in The World makes a great companion for little children, and you can see in various film clips of the tiny equine little children playing with them.

The public might get a peek at Einstein during the farm's open horse, er, house on May 8.

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