Kewanee Back When The Worlds Biggest Horse In Kewanee

Was Kewanee once the home of the World's Largest Horse? Dave Clarke's research indicates it just might be true. Back in the 1920s, Sully Francis, the brother of the man who would give Francis Park to Kewanee, Frederick Francis, was a famed horse breeder. A story in a 1920s edition of the Star Courier claims that Sully Francis owned a horse named Jumbo was more than 3300 pounds in weight. Word of the massive horse traveled around the globe with the biggest paper in Germany at the time proclaiming that Sully Francis of Kewanee, Illinois was indeed, the owner of the World's Biggest Horse. The story is further corroborated by Sully's dealings with the Ringling Brothers Circus which is believed to have taken Jumbo out on tour under a different name due to them already having a world famous Elephant named Jumbo. Dave Clarke lays out the story of Sully Francis and Kewanee's World Largest Horse claim on this edition of Kewanee Back When.