Old Billy
Old Billy (also Billy Boy or Billy ) was the longest-lived horse we know of. He was 62 years old.
Born in 1760 in England, he worked as Treidelpferd , the ships upstream channels and downstream moved. Old Billy is said to have looked like a big Cob or Shire . He was a bay with a white blaze . Billy died on November 27, 1822. A lithograph was published showing Billy with Henry Harrison, who had known the animal for 59 years.
Old Billy was painted by the artist Charles Towne.
literature
- Edmund Leonard Seyd: Old Billy, 1760-1822. The world's oldest horse (= Publications. New series (Manchester Museum) . NS. 3.73.). Manchester Museum, Manchester 1973, ISBN 0-904630-01-3 (12 pages).
Web links
- Old Billy. new cut trail, accessed June 13, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ M. Eugene Ensminger: Horses and Horsemanship. Pp. 46-50.
- ^ The Mane Facts About Horse Health . In: HorseFacts.org . Archived from the original on November 27, 2008. Retrieved January 16, 2009.
- ^ Morbid Monday: The Split Head of Old Billy, the World's Oldest Horse. In: Atlas Obscura. March 4, 2013, accessed June 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Old Billy, a Draft Horse, Aged 62