Where is the world's smallest horse currently living, how tall?

Guinness World Records recently recorded the world's shortest horse, with a height from hooves to shoulder blades only 56.7cm.

The world's smallest horse, named Bombel , lives on the KasKada farm in Łódź, Poland.

The world's smallest Bombel horse stands next to its owner .

The owners are the couple Patryk and Katarzyna Zielińska. The two men insisted, despite its small stature, the horse had "a strong character and a broad heart".

The height from the hooves to the special scapula of the horse is only 56.7 cm.

Zielińskas first saw Bombel in 2014, when it was two months old.

Katarzyna explained: "When the horse grew up, we found it began to have an abnormality. We decided to submit an application to the Guinness World Record to set a record."

Happy children playing with Bombel .

Once a month, people take the world's smallest horse to hospitals to meet and play with children treated there. The horse becomes an emotional support agent for sick children. Katarzyna says that children are happy when playing with special little horses.

It is known that the world's smallest horse previously belonged to Thumbelina, but it died in 2018. The reddish brown horse lost its life in St Louis, Missouri, USA with a height of only 44.5cm.

Meanwhile, the tallest horse in the world named Big Jake, 9, lives on a farm in Wisconsin, USA. Height from hooves to its shoulder blades to 210.19cm, nearly 4 times higher than Bombel - the world's shortest horse alive at the present time.