'He's massive!' Meet Hugo, the world's tallest horse

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Hugo the shire horse enters the record books as the world's tallest living horse.

Lisa Masters, successful a barn, holding her arms up, to the caput of a horse, who is sideways on, with reins astir his head. She is wearing achromatic leggings, has connected boots, a bluish apical and bluish gilet. She has agelong acheronian hairsbreadth tied backmost and is smiling. The barn is afloat of hay.

A Shire equine that has entered the grounds books arsenic the world's tallest surviving equine could transcend his tallness arsenic helium is inactive growing, his proprietor has said.

Hugo, who lives successful Towcester, Northamptonshire, has already reached an "abnormal" 199cm tall, astir 6.5ft to the withers.

Guinness World Records said the four-year-old's stature was officially assessed by a vet and helium was measured without shoes to guarantee an close result.

Owner Brett Masters said Hugo received "a immense magnitude of care" from a chiropractor, dentist, vet and masseuse, meaning helium lived a "five-star lifestyle".

Shire horses are known for their tallness and their ample stature means they are capable to propulsion dense weight, which is wherefore they person been historically utilized arsenic moving horses connected farms and for transport.

The tallest and heaviest equine ever documented, external was a Shire gelding named Sampson, who was aboriginal renamed Mammoth - bred by Thomas Cleaver of Toddington Mills successful Bedfordshire, which stood astatine 2.19 metres - oregon 7ft 2.5 successful - successful 1850.

A dentist, with a caput lamp on, looking into a horse's mouth, that has reins on. The equine is successful a stable.

Masters, from Tove Valley Shire Horses, said the breed was his passion.

He was approached by officials from Guinness World Records arsenic Hugo was "locally famous", and they had been told: "There is this truly large horse, you request to talk to these guys."

Masters said that erstwhile helium acquired Hugo - astatine the property of 18 months - helium had nary thought helium was "very tall, abnormally tall".

"He's inactive got 3 years of increasing left, helium won't halt until he's astir 8 and a half, he's lone a baby," helium said.

"It volition origin issues, truthful we person to beryllium precise cautious with him.

"He has a chiropractor, has regular massages, the dentist visits each six months, and the vet checks him each the clip arsenic his increasing plates are hyperactive.

"He has tons of supplements and a cautious provender regime.

"He lives a five-star lifestyle, helium wants for nothing."

Brett Masters, lasting adjacent to Hugo, successful a field, with trees and a obstruction down them. Brett is holding his reins and is wearing bluish jeans, a grey apical and bluish gilet. The equine is sideways on, to the camera.

Masters added: "Every clip helium goes out, radical stop, they movie him, outcry astatine you that 'he's massive'.

"He's the kindest, astir gentle benignant of horse."

He said helium did not person immoderate signifier of outgo for his authoritative recognition, but joked: "If immoderate carrot husbandman wants to springiness him immoderate carrots, he'd kindly person them."

Hugo is kept engaged by taking portion successful demonstrations and showing radical what shire horses would person done "back successful the day, by pulling cultivation implements, driving wagons", and is present learning to person radical thrust him.

"He's precise happy, and helium conscionable loves a bully fuss," Masters added.