{"id":1521,"date":"2010-08-11T04:46:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T04:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2025-01-30T20:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T20:10:29","slug":"tersk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/tersk","title":{"rendered":"Tersk Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>Also called the Tersky and Terskaya the Tersk is a relatively new breed developed in Russia in the early 20th century.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>Created in the northern Caucasus by a team of horse breeders and vets, the foundation stock included <a href=\"\/breeds\/strelets\">Stretlets<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/kabarda\">Kabarda<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/arabian-horse\">Arabian<\/a> and <a href=\"\/breeds\/don\">Don<\/a> crosses. The idea was to breed a robust Arabian type riding horse that was better suited to local conditions. There are 3 recognized types within the breed, basic (or regional), eastern and heavy. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 15.4-15.7 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head is light with a straight profile<br \/>\nNeck is medium in length<br \/>\nBack is flat and wide<br \/>\nChest is deep and wide<br \/>\nShoulders are long and sloped<br \/>\nLegs are well set<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/colors\/base\/chestnut\">chestnut<\/a> | <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/greying\">grey<\/a> | <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/bay\">bay<\/a> | <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/brown\">brown<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Energetic yet kind<br \/>\nEasy to train<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Riding horse<br \/>\nEndurance mount<br \/>\nShow horse<br \/>\nEventing horse<\/p>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hHfKDyam-4Y?si=955ZT7wMdoVjPTIp&amp;start=645\" 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<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iT9P_EowWxU?si=edBEUFECi72X6uWf&amp;start=645\" 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 Also called the Tersky and Terskaya the Tersk is a relatively new breed developed in Russia in the early 20th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[5,118,11,15],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","tag-bay","tag-brown","tag-chestnut","tag-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","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=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8437,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/8437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}