When Einstein was born he tipped the scales at a mere 6 pounds and measured just 14 inches tall. And while these stats might sound ho-hum for a baby of the human variety, they tell a very different story for a baby horse.
Einstein is a pint-sized pinto colt born last Friday in New Hampshire, and this living “My Little Pony” is making a giant splash in world news.
“We’ve been at this for 20 years and I’ve never seen one this small,” Judy Smith, owner of Tiz A Miniature Horse Farm in Barnstead, New Hampshire, told the Boston Herald. The average miniature horse foal stands 21 inches tall at birth and weighs 18 pounds.
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Although he has yet to be certified as the smallest horse on the planet (the world’s record currently belongs to Thumbelina, a chestnut mare born in 2001 near St. Louis who weighed 8.5 pounds and stood 11 inches at birth), Einstein has become an instant Internet star.
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