The Banat was a moderately large-framed quality riding horse which was used for draft and pulling power. They were similar to what we consider a heavy warmblood today. This breed is now extinct.
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This breed was a large light horse from the Timus Plateau of Romania. They were developed by crossing the Nonius<\/a>, Noric<\/a>, Ardennes<\/a>, Oldenburg<\/a> and Lipitsa. They became an important animal to the local people and were used primarily for agricultural work. <\/p>\n Unfortunately, with the emergence of modernization techniques for farming, the Banat, among other draft type animals fell into extinction. According to the DAD-IS the breed was extinct as of 1920, which is the last and only year population data was provided for them.<\/p>\n Average height 15.7 hands With the influence of so many breeds, a standard was never agreed upon. Generally chestnut<\/a>, bay<\/a> or brown<\/a> Tractable and willing<\/p>\n Agriculture work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Intro The Banat was a moderately large-framed quality riding horse which was used for draft and pulling power. They were similar to what we consider a heavy warmblood today. This breed is now extinct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[5,118,11,125],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romania","tag-bay","tag-brown","tag-chestnut","tag-extinct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","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=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/2180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Features<\/h3>\n
\nMane and tail hair was not thick<\/p>\nPhysique<\/h3>\n
\nMarked withers
\nCrop is inclined
\nLegs are thin<\/p>\nTraditional Colors<\/h3>\n
\nThe color of its coat was chestnut or bay. The hair of its mane and tail was not very thick. White markings on the head and limbs were possible.<\/p>\nTemperament<\/h3>\n
Use<\/h3>\n