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.
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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