Big Jake: World's Tallest Horse

The tallest living horse is Big Jake, a nine-year-old Belgian Gelding horse, who measured 20 hands 2.75 in (210.19 cm, 82.75 in), without shoes, at Smokey Hollow Farms in Poynette, Wisconsin, USA, on 19 January 2010. Big Jake was measured three times with the same measurement recorded each time. He is owned by Smokey Hollow Farms of which Jerry Gilbert is the manager.