Show Aged Horses With moderate care and good usage a horses life may be prolonged to 25 35 or 40 years All English gentleman had three horses which died in his possession posses-sion at the ages of 35 37 and 39 years respectively The oldest was in a carriage car-riage the very day ho died strong and vigorous but was carried off by a spasmodic spas-modic colic to which he was subject A horse in use at a riding school in Woolwich lived to be 40 years old and a barge horse of the Mersey and IrwelJ Navigation company is declared to kayo been in his sixtysecond year when ho diedLondon Answers |