{"id":10010,"date":"2025-10-19T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=10010"},"modified":"2025-10-19T03:34:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:34:16","slug":"american-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/american-stock","title":{"rendered":"American Stock Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>Not an official breed, the American Stock Horses are not bred for breed genetics, but rather for their agility and ability to work with cattle.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>There are several breeds of horse found in the US which tend to be good stock horses, including the <a href=\"\/breeds\/quarter-horse\">Quarter Horse<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/american-paint\">Paint<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/appaloosa\">Appaloosa<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/carolina-marsh-tacky\">Carolina Marsh Tacky<\/a> and <a href=\"\/breeds\/florida-cracker\">Florida Cracker<\/a> Horse. <\/p>\n<p>In 2004 the National Stock Horse Association was established to formally develop a stock type horse. The US already has a rich ranch horse heritage and stock type competitions have always been common. The NSHA developed and promoted stock horse sports and developed a community around this athletic type.  <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 14.8 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Depends on the breed<br \/>\nMedium sized<br \/>\nHindquarters are muscular<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>All <a href=\"\/colors\">colors<\/a> <\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Alert and intelligent<br \/>\nAgile and bold<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Working cattle<br \/>\nStock competitions<\/p>\n<h3>Helpful Links<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalstockhorse.com\/\" target=\"blank\">National Stock Horse Association<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanstockhorse.org\/\" target=\"blank\">American Stock Horse Association<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/176QDD6iHbQ?si=nq5X5qwaH9-DvkSU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro Not an official breed, the American Stock Horses are not bred for breed genetics, but rather for their agility and ability to work with cattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-10010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-all-colors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10014,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010\/revisions\/10014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}