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Wandle Goliath

Guinness World Records certificate for Wandle Goliath, the world’s tallest living horse at 19.11½ hands, born in 1977 and once owned by Young Company’s Brewery, now retired in Lincolnshire, UK.

Shire Horse – 19.1/4hh – Died July 19th 2001
Formally the tallest shire horse in the world.
 

More information about Wandle Goliath (Golly) will be published here shortly. 

Read about Goliath’s life at the Northcote Heavy Horse Centre here.
Also take a look at this Equiworld article about Goliath.

A close-up of Goliath, a black horse with a white stripe on his face, standing indoors under a wooden roof. The horse is looking slightly to the side.
A Wandle Goliath wooden urn with a white flower arrangement is displayed on a table covered with a white cloth, surrounded by small potted flowers, in an indoor setting.
A very large black and white Shire horse named Goliath eats from a bucket held up on a pole by a man beside the Wandle. The scene is outdoors on grass under a blue sky, with the headline Goliath goes for Guinness.
A black horse named Goliath with a white blaze on its face stands indoors, looking directly at the camera, a dark background and part of a roof visible above.
Two large horses, one black and one white, stand side by side wearing harnesses on a muddy farmyard with a green Land Rover and farm buildings in the background. In the foreground, Wandle Goliath the goat stands, brown and white among the animals.
A small black pony stands on muddy ground, framed between the legs of a Goliath-like black horse with white stockings, highlighting their size difference.
Two horses, Goliath—a dark brown with a white blaze—and a white companion stand side by side on green grass, framed by trees in the background.
A person in a green coat stands next to Goliath, a large black horse, gently holding its head whilst looking up at it. The background features leafless trees and a wooden fence beneath the cloudy Wandle sky.
Two wooden urns decorated with flowers sit on a table covered with a light pink cloth. Small arrangements surround the urns, whilst large wooden wagon wheels and a black Goliath motorbike stand in the background.

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