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HUGE Draft Horses

· The Equinest

Some of the draft breeds can produce absolute monsters. Imagine seeing a horse for the first time…now imagine it was one of these animals.

Woman riding a huge horse

Image from Cosmopolitan Horse Farm

Woman with a huge horse

Image from Daily Mail

This one just keeps getting bigger

Ardennes Horse

Shire Horse

I just have one thing to say: that is One HUGE Horse!

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  1. Alayna

    these horses are beautiful. at my barn we hau an 18 hand draft named Midnight or cokiemonster!!!!

  2. Nina

    I started “horse” riding when I was 4. At the time even a Haflinger poney looked like a moutain, but it felt reassuring, conforting, and now I love draft horses for their hugeness and their very kind temper : they’re poneys for grown ups !

  3. Jenna

    I love these horses. I own a percheron shire cross stallion, who is 18.3 hands. I can say from experience, they really are big babies. If you’re going to have a stallion get a coldblood

  4. Valerie

    Just wanted to say thank you so much for using my photo on this! 🙂 The Cosmopolitan Horse Farm photo is of a Drum horse stallion named Chalk. He is about 16.3hhs tall and quite large. If you want to see a really huge horse check out the large black Shire named Paladin. I believe he’s close to 18hhs, easy, but such a love!

    I guess they have to be if they’re so large.

  5. Erica

    your horses are beautiful!!!!! I wish that i had a horse just like that,because i dont have a horse at all.I am a little girl looking at websites and i found yours.I was always told we are so poor that i will never get a horse.I am at a friends house writing this because i dont have a computer in my home.

    WELL I GUESS I STILL CAN DREAM. 🙂

  6. admin

    Valerie – The drum stallion is magnificent and your photo is fantastic. Thanks for letting me use it. I’ll check Paladin out, I love the gentle giants!

    Erica – Keep dreaming, sometimes that is all it takes. 🙂

  7. Kristie

    wow there huge I have never rode a big horse like these but i have rode a 16.3hh horse!there so pretty!

  8. beth

    these horses are beautiful! A friend of mine owns a shire stud farm, they’re biggest horse is 18.2hh and he is so gentle and sweet.

    1. adam

      what is that horse.

    2. adam

      sounds like a cool horse.

  9. tu papi

    culerooosss no vaelen vergas putosssssss

    1. tu papi

      mamenme el chile par de jotos

  10. tu papi

    oooo sii claro ke te lo mamoooooooo

  11. tu papi

    those horses are nasty

    1. adam

      These horses are not nasty.They are cool.

  12. adam

    I started riding when i was 1 or 2 years old. I have a horse of my own and she is about 10 or 11 hands tall.She is a smoth ride when she trots or runs.Any way i think these drafts are big cool horses.

  13. Layla

    wow they are huge, i would love a horse. But first we would have to win the lottery Im 8 years old

    Layla xx

  14. Layla

    Hello its layla who commented in 2011, i allways wanted a horse but now i can do stuff with a little 12 hands Dartmoor/Arab orgially Bay but now Grey and 16 i kinda share him hes called Parsley i allso ride a 16-3 and a half hands high called Lusio and i ride througobred arabs

    1. Layla

      Or not forget I posted that! it all ended!

  15. Janet

    Wow these horses are absolutely amazing and beautiful. I would love to see a draft horse in real life, even though I am horrified of a regular horse.