{"id":302,"date":"2010-08-09T00:52:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T00:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=302"},"modified":"2025-10-29T23:41:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:41:58","slug":"brazilian-pony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/brazilian-pony","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian Pony"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>The Brazilian Pony is a small scale individual that was developed to stimulate interest in diverse sporting activities for children.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>The breed was developed from the tough <a href=\"\/breeds\/galloway-pony\">Scottish Ponies<\/a> and the fine <a href=\"\/breeds\/falabella\">Falabella<\/a> from Argentina, along with the influence of animals from Uruguay and Paraguay. For awhile cross-breeding with American ponies was tried, but the size of the <a href=\"\/breeds\/poa\">POA<\/a> were larger than was desired, so the breeding was discontinued.<\/p>\n<p>Today Brazilian Ponies are popular as pets. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 8.3 &#8211; 9.8 hands<br \/>\nBred for perfect horse conformation<br \/>\nHeight at the hindquarters is not to exceed the height at the withers by more than .02 cm<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head is triangular with straight or slightly concave profile<br \/>\nEars are small, mobile and directed upward<br \/>\nEyes are remote and expressive<br \/>\nNeck is muscular, proportional and well-defined<br \/>\nMane and tail are abundant and silky<br \/>\nChest is deep, wide and muscular<br \/>\nBack is short and straight<br \/>\nLegs are medium in length and well-defined<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/colors\/white-patterns\/pinto\">Pintos<\/a> and <a href=\"\/colors\/white-patterns\/appaloosa\">appaloosas<\/a> are prized in this breed<br \/>\nSolid <a href=\"\/colors\">colors<\/a> are allowed, but not as popular<\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Docile and calm<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Pet<br \/>\nCart horse<br \/>\nRiding pony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro The Brazilian Pony is a small scale individual that was developed to stimulate interest in diverse sporting activities for children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brazil","tag-all-colors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","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=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10331,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/10331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}