Old Billy is the oldest horse to ever live. It was born in 1760 and lived to be 62 years old! Old Billy's incredible life record has him beat! Old Billy was bred by Edward Robinson of Woolston, Lancashire, UK. He died on November 27, 1822. Not much is known about the life of Old Billy and what was the reason he lived too such an impressive age. He was said to have looked like a big cob/shire horse, and was brown with a white blaze. In his six decades on earth, he spent many years as a barge horse that pulled barges up and down canals.