Voted! 51?? That's amazing! I would never have guessed horses could live so long.

I like knowing these facts. Keep it up.

One of the Queen' s cats was in her thirties as of last year. Also this horse was living in England. I think that the owners take very good care of them. Thus they are loved and live longer.

Beautiful article but made me sad when I read he died! RIP you wonderful horse!

That is very interesting information and also a long time for a horse to live.

My friend had a 43 year old pony, and my horseshoer had a 40 something year old mustang. We had a 40 year old thoroughbred off the Arab quarter mile circuit. He had run, was put out to stud for over 13 years, then sold at auction, still uncut, then put into another auction where a friend of ours bought him for a parade horse. His feet were rotted off. It took us two years with vet and shoer working with us (I was taking care of the horse for his owner) before he could be reshod. He spent a couple of years not getting trained enough for parade, just ran off, and was sold to another friend and his girlfriend a trainer. He was great with little kids in the round corral with a lead...........I rode him no problem, bareback in the round corral, often with just a progress string on his neck. LUCKILY. He then took off up a mountain and barely missed going over the cliff with the man's girlfriend, a trainer, and back to the auction. I felt sad for him, and bought him so he did not go to the trippers, he had just been cut, and was still really stallion, thick neck, and big shoulders looking. It took two or three years for a friend who was a retired exercise rider, and myself to work with him, we called it upsy/downsy training one riding, the other with him on a lead after I made the mistake of saddling him up and taking him into the rodeo arena on the site. He would take off, full speed, three times around, and slam to a stop. He did that twice, and then I was ready and dismounted before he took off again. We figured out he also had a HUGE scarred area, someone had either used barbed wire as a bit, or wrapped a bit with barbed wire to try and control him, long before my friend bought him. No wonder he never had any control, the minute the bit hit, the horse exploded. SO, back to square one, and halter training only. He finally did get it, and was working with equine therapy kids the entire time, so sweet and gentle as long as in the round corral and on a line. He is featured in the inclusionary book "Carousel Horse" and lived to be 40 before we ran into an overzealous animal control officer who said "he would be long ago eaten in the wild" and forced us to put him down. Our own vets, two of them had known and taken care of the horse for track trainers, and owners, and stud farm owners, and us, had been with him lifelong, but she would not let our vets and high risk kids say good bye to him, or let his own vets put him down (THEY said, yes, he is old and frail, but he is happy and has a good quality of life) He was allowed to roam the stables when we were there, and everyone loved to bring him treats and brush or bathe him. He would jump and run with joy and go graze every day when let out. My heart was broken when that woman killed him. I was volunteering for the Mayor who was then running for office, and we decided not to sue for our losses and heartbreak, but did move our whole program to another county. We, horsemen need to make sure that non-horse people do NOT get to make decisions on when it is time for our horses to be put down. That particular horse has had put down signed documents with out vets for over ten years, just in case he had an emergency and they could not reach one of our Directors, so he would never suffer, but he was happy, and giving love and healing to many kids and vets and one mean woman who thought a horse no longer able to perform or be on the trail should be put down because in the wild it would be eaten long before should NOT be making those choices. It has left a horrible pain in my soul, let alone my heart, and the hearts of our therapeutic riders as well.

It is amazing that this horse was able to live for so long. This is definitely one healthy horse. I would love to be able to have a horse that is in that good of shape. I definitely bet that his really good diet had a huge impact on his long age. http://MIDWAYFORAGE.COM

Uh, the longest lived horse actually lived to be 64 years old, and he wasn't pampered like Shayne probably was. But he wasn't 'verified' by 'Guiness World Records'. Though there is still plenty of evidence.