{"id":402,"date":"2010-08-09T02:23:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T02:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=402"},"modified":"2025-02-20T18:58:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T18:58:28","slug":"chickasaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/chickasaw","title":{"rendered":"Chickasaw Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>An early descendant of Spanish horses brought to the Americas in the 16th century. They were given their name because they were brought north from Florida by the Chickasaw Indians.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>Colonists in Virginia and the Carolina&#8217;s became interested in these animals which were known for great speed over short distances. Interestingly enough, this animal is one of the foundations of the early <a href=\"\/breeds\/quarter-horse\">Quarter Horse<\/a>. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 14 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head and ears are short with unusual width between the eyes<br \/>\nNeck is short and stocky<br \/>\nBack is short<br \/>\nChest is wide<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>All <a href=\"\/colors\">colors<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Intelligent and hardy<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Riding horse<br \/>\nRace horse<br \/>\nCow horse<\/p>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EUilqSwjgdo?si=tMqqfPT0fa83XPsW\" 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 An early descendant of Spanish horses brought to the Americas in the 16th century. They were given their name because they were brought north from Florida by the Chickasaw Indians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-all-colors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","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=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8994,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/8994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}