“Lubber, Biggest of Horses, is Dead,” said the Norfolk Press on June 9th, 1927, headlining an obituary for an animal exhibited throughout Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana and Mississippi, as the largest horse in the world. At 21 hands high and 3,120 pounds in weight, Lubber certainly looked the part. Born in 1921, “Lubber was raised at Red Bird, in Holt County, where men and women grow big, are big and have big vision as well as big live stock and big farms,” said the Press. “His dam was percheron and broncho crossed and his sire was cross bred Belgium (Belgian) and Shire.