The Amur is a light horse breed from Siberia of the early 19th century that is sadly now extinct.
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Their bloodlines were a combination of Transbaikal (Buryat<\/a>) and Tomsk heritage, they were bred primarily for riding. The Amur was a hardy and strong breed with a finer conformation than generally found in colder northern regions.<\/p>\n The breed became extinct due to crossing with many of the other Russian breeds including Orlov Trotters<\/a>, Don<\/a> and Budyonny<\/a>.<\/p>\n Short, thick neck Intro The Amur is a light horse breed from Siberia of the early 19th century that is sadly now extinct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","tag-extinct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","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=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8327,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/8327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Their Demise<\/h3>\n
Physique<\/h3>\n
\nMedium length back with a well-rounded croup
\nFoundation was firm with good tractive power
\nMane and tail were thick\/ long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"