{"id":439,"date":"2010-08-09T02:49:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T02:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=439"},"modified":"2025-01-08T13:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T13:47:16","slug":"corsican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/corsican","title":{"rendered":"Corsican Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>The Corsican Horse comes from the French island of Corsica, the equine species is not native to the island and was probably brought around 259 BC when the Romans took control of the area.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>Later these animals were the primary means of transportation for a variety of people and eventually for the French as they took control. Local people made a living from the use of horses and over the years added bloodlines and local climate gave rise to a breed particularly adapted to survive there. <\/p>\n<p>Mid-18th century the army took control of breeding on Corsica island and <a href=\"\/breeds\/anglo-arabian\">Anglo-Arab<\/a> blood was added to the mix. Once their need was fulfilled horse breeding returned to the local inhabitants. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 13 &#8211; 13.3 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head is heavy with a straight profile<br \/>\nFrame is compact and square<br \/>\nHooves are narrow and hard<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>Predominately <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/bay\">bay<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Riding<br \/>\nPacking<\/p>\n<h3>More Images<\/h3>\n<div class=\"grid-two\">\n<div class=\"grid-two-one\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/corsica-horse-1.webp\" alt=\"Corsican Horse \"  \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two-two\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BBuoAmxbaBY?si=2A852ADMY2toCT7k\" 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 Corsican Horse comes from the French island of Corsica, the equine species is not native to the island and was probably brought around 259 BC when the Romans took control of the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-france","tag-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","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=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7254,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/7254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}