{"id":1679,"date":"2010-08-13T15:46:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T15:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2025-10-31T23:48:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T23:48:45","slug":"yili","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/yili","title":{"rendered":"Yili Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>The Yili or Iyi Horse was developed in the mountain basin grasslands of Yili-Kazakh Autonomous District in China.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>At the turn of the 20th century Russian immigrants brought stallions to the area to improve local <a href=\"\/breeds\/kazakh\">Kazakh horses<\/a>. Later in 1936 <a href=\"\/breedsdon\">Don<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/orlov-trotter\">Orlov Trotter<\/a> and Anglo-Don animals were imported to further improve stock, however they didn&#8217;t achieve the desired results. By 1936 a suitable draft-riding type was achieved and careful interbreeding created the Yili Horse. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 14 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head is light with a straight profile<br \/>\nNeck is average in length and slightly arched in studs<br \/>\nBack is short and strong<br \/>\nChest is deep<br \/>\nShoulder is sloped<br \/>\nLegs are clean and often hind legs are sickled<\/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\/base\/black\">black<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Honest and true<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Riding horse<br \/>\nLight draft<\/p>\n<h3>More Images<\/h3>\n<div class=\"grid-two\">\n<div class=\"grid-two-one\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/yili-horse-1.webp\" alt=\"Yili Horse\"  \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two-two\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/yili-horse.webp\" alt=\"Yili Horse\"  \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lWhjDnCfcN4?si=gpg2iLzEzN9un9gt\" 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 The Yili or Iyi Horse was developed in the mountain basin grasslands of Yili-Kazakh Autonomous District in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[5,4,11,15],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-bay","tag-black","tag-chestnut","tag-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","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=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10436,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/10436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}