The Breed Read - Snapshot on the Shire

Name: Shire
Nickname: none
Conformation: this breed has a medium sized head that sports a broad forhead and a kindly expression. A slighty convex profile, long ears, a long neck, very deep and wide shoulder. A stallion's barrel can measure 8 feet in circumfrence, heavy, muscled, compact
Height: about 17hh
Color: often black, also grey, brown, and bay, all with white feathering
Tidbit: The shire is the tallest horse (it's car equivelent is the tank), the breed doesn't hold the record for tallest horse. A percheron cross called Firpon curently holds this record, his ears would have touched the top of a city bus!

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