What eats 18 to 20 lbs. of grain, 40 lbs. of hay, drinks 20 gallons of water each day, weighs over 2,400 lbs. and stand 6′ 7 1/2″ tall? Radar.Crowds gathered at the Big R in Falcon to see “Radar,” a Belgian Draft Horse featured in the Guinness Book of World Records as “The World’s Tallest Horse.” Radar recently won the title after he beat out former champion “Goliath,” a Percheron Draft horse from Alberta, Canada, measuring 6í5″ tall. “The Denver Post, they reported that Goliath was dead,” said Charles Woods, Priefert Ranch Equipment’s representative and Radar’s caretaker. “He is not dead,” Wood said. “Goliath was the 2004-2005 record holder, who Woods said is currently touring around the country.The two tall horses do not travel together. “I can’t haul two of them horses around,” Woods said with a laugh.Horses are measured from hoof to the withers (a small hump that starts just at the base of the mane and goes approximately half-way up between the base to the horses head), Woods said. “They got a yardstick type deal to measure him now, but in the old days the average man’s size hand measured four inches,” he said. “And that’s how they measured them.”Radar is a gelding born in 1998 in Iowa. The owner sold him to Priefert Ranch Equipment, which also owns Goliath, as well as Texas Thunder and a team of black Percheron Draft horses.
