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Noddy the Shire horse is a strapping lad. He weighs in at 1.3 tonnes and could one day tip the scales at 1.5 tonnes. He takes an eight-foot cover and his Australian owner is getting him used to a ladder to make getting into the saddle a little easier.

In short, Noddy has one mighty body.

Noddy, who has just turned five, is almost certainly the world's tallest horse, standing 20.1 hands at the withers. His height - that's 81 inches, or 2.057m - puts him a full inch (2.5cm) taller than Tina, a Shire horse officially listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the world's tallest.

It seems that Noddy's owner, Jane Greenman, has plenty more of Noddy to look forward to in the future: Heavy horses continue to grow to the age of seven and it is possible the gelding will put on another 200kg before he's fully grown.

Jane bought Noddy as a six-month-old foal when she became interested in training a heavy horse to do work around her 40-acre farm