According to reporter Andrew Levy, who writes for the UK Mail Online News, a chestnut stallion that has lived at the Remus Memorial Horse Sanctuary in Brentwood, Essex, since 2007, may be the oldest horse in the world at age 51.
Living the good life in retirement
A chestnut stallion that has lived at the Remus Memorial Horse Sanctuary in Brentwood, Essex, since 2007, may be the oldest horse in the world at age 51.
His mane is tinged with grey and he’d have trouble clearing a fence, but Shayne still enjoys a gallop outside his stables and is in better shape than many of his stable mates, despite having nearly three decades on most of them.
The elderly horse has some senior company after it was revealed that he lives in the same town as Pip the 24-year-old terrier, who is thought to be the world's oldest dog.
Shayne inherited the title of the world’s oldest living horse following the death of the previous holder in 2004. Despite suffering from some mild arthritis, the horse is in good health.
The 15 hands gelding is enjoying a laid back retirement with four meals a day at the 40-acre Remus Memorial Horse Sanctuary. Sanctuary founder Sue Burton said: 'We get people who rescue a horse and they say it is in its 30s and then it knocks them for six when we say we have one in its 50s.
The previous title of oldest living horse in the world was held by Welsh/Arab steed Badger, from Pembrokeshire, Wales, who died at age 51, in in 2004.
Shayne does not have a birth certificate but they were given his birth date by his previous owner and have since verified his age with medical checks.