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Old Billy (also called Billy or Ol' Billy) was the longest-living horse on record. Old Billy was verified to be 62 at his death. [1] Born in Woolston, Cheshire, England in 1760, [2] Billy adventured and became a barge horse that pulled barges up and down canals. Old Billy was said to look like a big cob/shire horse, and was brown with a white ...
Wild horses face various challenges that contribute to higher mortality rates, including scarcity of food and water, as well as predation. The oldest known horse, Old Billy (1760-1822), lived to the age of 62 and gained significant attention in Manchester. He was a working horse of the Shire/Cob type. [8]
The oldest verifiable record was "Old Billy", a 19th-century horse that lived to the age of 62. [7] In modern times, Sugar Puff, who had been listed in Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living pony, died in 2007 at age 56.
Early foundation sires of Quarter Horse type included Steel Dust, foaled 1843; Shiloh (or Old Shiloh), foaled 1844; Old Cold Deck (1862); Lock's Rondo, one of many "Rondo" horses, foaled in 1880; Old Billy—again, one of many "Billy" horses—foaled c. 1880; Traveler, a stallion of unknown breeding, known to have been in Texas by 1889; [16 ...
David Campbell; Nina Carberry; Paul Carberry; Tommy Carberry; Eliza Carpenter; Willie Carson; G. R. Carter; Jim Cassidy; Larry Cassidy; Jesús Castañón; Javier ...
Shoemaker's Stalking Horse (1994), Fire Horse (1995), and Dark Horse (1996) all featured jockey-turned-sleuth Coley Killebrew using his racetrack experience in and about his restaurant and the horse world. Shoemaker died on October 12, 2003, of natural causes at his home in San Marino, California. He was 72 years old. [8]
Old Whitey was Taylor's war horse, during the Mexican–American War. He was the antithesis of a war horse, due to his light coloration. Taylor used him anyway and he was just as Taylor wanted. [2] Taylor was known to sit calmly on Old Whitey as bullets went past his head. [3]
Billy Kelly (foaled 1916 in Kentucky, died 1926 in Canada) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was the champion two-year-old in 1918 when he won 14 of 17 starts. Favored for the 1919 Kentucky Derby, he lost to his stablemate, the then lightly regarded Sir Barton , but Billy Kelly would beat Sir Barton in 8 of 12 head to head races.