The Guiness book of records has just recorded the bull with the largest horns in the world. The animal is called Lazy J´s Bluegrass and he has horns of 2, 97 meters in length from point to point of each horn. It might just squeeze through the entrance gate of Pamplona’s bullring, if it were taking part in the Running of the Bulls, as the entrance gate is exactly three meters wide. More than a bull, it would seem like some kind of snowplow with horns as wide as that. In any case, with that kind of frame, all the bull could do would be to steamroll the runners and knock them to the ground.
Lazy J’s Bluegrass is not a fighting bull, of course. It belongs to a breed known as Longhorn – which is the kind of bull breed used on the ranches of the American West and which became famous due to the fact it was used by the cowboys in the western movies. However, it can be a mean critter as it has descended from a cross-breed with the white bull breed from the Caceres region in Spain and brought over to the New World by Spanish colonists.
They were on the point of becoming extinct but the US Fish & Wildlife Service preserved a herd of them in Wichita at the beginning of the XX century. In recent years, a group of cattle ranchers in Texas decided to preserve the breed for historical reasons and they began to use some of the Oklahoma herd to breed new bulls and from this crossbreeding the Texas longhorn came into being and it is to this breed that the new record-holder belongs.
