There were several different types of horse bred in the Cape Province, the foundation being a variety of different imported European bloodlines which contributed genetics. The Calvinia Horse is named for the town in which they were bred. This breed is listed as extinct in the DAD-IS as of 2006.
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This breed was developed during the 19th century in the western cape of South Africa. The Calvinia Horse is the product of local Boerperd<\/a> mares crossed with Thoroughbred<\/a> Hackney<\/a> and Cleveland Bay<\/a> animals. <\/p>\n Average height 14.2 – 15.2 hands<\/p>\n Well conformed<\/p>\n Black<\/a>, bay<\/a> and brown<\/a><\/p>\n Docile and good natured<\/p>\n Riding horse Intro There were several different types of horse bred in the Cape Province, the foundation being a variety of different imported European bloodlines which contributed genetics. The Calvinia Horse is named for the town in which they were bred. This breed is listed as extinct in the DAD-IS as of 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[5,4,11,125],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-bay","tag-black","tag-chestnut","tag-extinct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","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=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8573,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/8573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Features<\/h3>\n
Physique<\/h3>\n
Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n
Temperament<\/h3>\n
Use<\/h3>\n
\nDriving horse
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