Late in the 19th century their numbers dipped, pure blood diluted with local trotters. During this time the steppes were cleared, removing common grazing land and forcing locals to stable and feed their animals. In 1936 a study was conducted on the horses of the area and a decision was made to improve the local draft breeds by crossing them pure with only the addition of trotter blood. By 1938 a stud farm was established to breed a Bityug type horse that was re-named the Voronezh Coach Horse. <\/p>\n
3 Voronezh Coach Types<\/h3>\n
There are three recognized types of the breed. Average height 15.3 – 17.5 hands <\/p>\n Forehead is broad Bay<\/a> | brown<\/a> | roan<\/a> | grey<\/a> | black<\/a><\/p>\n Calm and willing<\/p>\n Harness Intro The Voronezh Coach or Voronezh Draft was developed in the Voronezh District of Russia and useful as a light draft animal for the people who lived there. The breed is now listed as extinct in the DAD-IS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8456,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[5,4,118,125,15,7],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","tag-bay","tag-black","tag-brown","tag-extinct","tag-grey","tag-roan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","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=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10199,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions\/10199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMassive<\/strong> – the smallest in numbers but larger, with more draft influence.
\nLight<\/strong> – more refined in conformation & shows trotter influence.
\nLocal<\/strong> – the offspring of local stallions with unknown bloodlines, tends to be coarser in conformation.<\/p>\nFeatures<\/h3>\n
Physique<\/h3>\n
\nChest is wide
\nBack is straight and long
\nLegs are dry with well made joints and feathered
\nHindquarters are long and wide
\nHooves are hard<\/p>\nTraditional Colors<\/h3>\n
Temperament<\/h3>\n
Use<\/h3>\n
\nDraft
\nTransportation<\/p>\nMore Images<\/h3>\n
![\"Voronezh](\"\/images\/voronezh-coach-horse-2.webp\")
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