{"id":286,"date":"2010-08-09T00:40:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T00:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=286"},"modified":"2025-02-20T17:07:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:07:29","slug":"blazer-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/blazer-horse","title":{"rendered":"Blazer Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>The Blazer Horse was deveolped over a period of years by Neil Hinck from Star, Idaho. The result of his dream to breed a smart, strong, easy-moving and gentle working horse was a stallion he named Little Blaze.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>Little Blaze was the combination of <a href=\"\/breeds\/quarter-horse\">Quarter Horse<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/american-thoroughbred\">Thoroughbred<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/morgan-horse\">Morgan<\/a> and <a href=\"\/breeds\/shetland-pony\">Shetland<\/a> bloodlines. He became the foundation sire in the 1950&#8217;s, living until he was 39. To be registered as a Blazer Horse, (even today) the horse must have at least one registered parent with a documented line to Little Blaze.<\/p>\n<p>The Blazer is a low maintenance and highly adaptable horse who seems to excel at everything they try. Every horse that is registered as Blazer is scrutinized by a team from the registry and no horse is registered before age two.  <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 13 &#8211; 15 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>They are bred to exact muscle placement &#8211; length of back, length of cannon bone and other characteristics that maximize its usefulness. <\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>Blazer Horses must have a solid <a href=\"\/colors\">coat color<\/a> with dark under-laying skin. Spotted <a href=\"\/colors\/white-patterns\">white coat patterns<\/a> are not accepted into the registry.<\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Balanced<br \/>\nGentle and willing<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Ranch work<br \/>\nEventing Horse<br \/>\nShow Horse<br \/>\nPleasure animal<br \/>\nEndurance horse<\/p>\n<h3>Helpful Links<\/h3>\n<p><small>*All links open in a new window<\/small><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blazerhorse.com\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Blazer Horse Association<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3-F7rX4ts7U?si=mRrvHdnW7zFotT0i\" 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\/nvuTnlkts-4?si=ZlJ1P0ZG2L6kiCAo\" 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 Blazer Horse was deveolped over a period of years by Neil Hinck from Star, Idaho. The result of his dream to breed a smart, strong, easy-moving and gentle working horse was a stallion he named Little Blaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-solid-colors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","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=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8979,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/8979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}