The Worlds Tallest Horse!
Jenson's Diplomat Tina

The horse Jenson's Diplomat Tina was raised on the Jenson Shire farm here in Blair NE. I sold her to the Williams when she was 4 months old.

She is out of Diplomat my herd stallion that stands about 19.3 a measurement that I took about a year ago. I have not measured him lately. She is out of a mare that we raised. This mare stood over 18 hands.

I flew out to Tennessee to witness the measuring of this 3 year old filly for the Guinness Book of World Records. For the measuring they had two licensed vets that did the measuring along with the mayor of the town and 4 council men to be witnesses. She measured 20 hands bare foot and 20.1 hands with her shoes on. This proceeding was video filmed and this is then sent to England for confirmation. This confirmation should be back with in about 4 weeks. As of now this horse is recorded as the tallest horse in the world.
The Williams handled this event in a very professional way. They had many events during the day which included dressage demonstrations, pony rides, and talks all during the day on dental work to hoof care and they allowed me to give 3 talks during the day which we discussed the history of the shire and the back ground of raising a large horse. This time gave us a good opportunity to promote the Shire and the ASHA. Discs were provided to about 8 news media that were covering the event... 
These disks gave the media pictures of the stallion that was Tina’s sire and of Tina when she was 4 months old. It also gave them a complete narrative on the history of the Shire horse and its relationship with England. This was a great opportunity to promote the Shire and discuss its wonderful traits of its gentle and a quite disposition. Interviews were conducted with NBC with film as well as voice interviews.
While the tallest horse a few years ago I am told was a Percherons and today’s record holder is a Belgian it is only fitting that we take advantage of the promotion that this mare is bringing to the Shire horse world. While it is not our goal to try to raise the tallest horse in the world you do need to start with genetics that will allow that to happen and after that feed and good care are the other very important contributing factors. I feel as a breeder that this if a very good tool to promote the Shire with but we can not take our eye off the most important factor that the Shire contributes and that is disposition. That along with excellent conformation have to be the guiding light for the Shire to remain the great horse it is.
I want to thank the Williams for their courtesy and effort to make this a very fun day for about 800 people that came to witness this memorable event. Their contribution also laid the foundation for us as Shire breeders to take advantage of the promotion and publicity that follow such and important event.
I want to thank the William for making this possible and doing it in such a professional way.

Clark Jenson