25 The Horse that Spelled

Jim Key - the Horse that Could Really Spell!

An freed slave named Bill Key had such a rapport with an intelligent horse he named Jim Key, that he was able to actually teach it to spell many names and many words. The horse went into schools and participated in spelling bees! He was at the St. Louis 1904 Worlds Fair and spelled the names of hundreds of visitors. This amazing slideshow/video will convince you that this horse had a lot of sense! In this slideshow/video you will be convinced, as were the Harvard professors who came to test the horse, that there is definitely more to horse sense than we ever realized!