{"id":447,"date":"2010-08-09T02:54:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T02:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=447"},"modified":"2025-01-11T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T11:21:17","slug":"cretan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/cretan","title":{"rendered":"Cretan Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>Also known as Messara Horse, the Cretan Horse is a light draft horse found in the island of Crete off the coast of Greece.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>They are a mountain-type pony that have been on the island since around the year 1000 and are mostly found on the Mesara plain. This animal was developed in the 17th century by crossing native mares with imported Turkish <a href=\"\/breeds\/arabian-horse\">Arabian<\/a> stallions. In 1994 a conservation program was started to preserve their bloodlines, at that time there were 182 animals left. Over the next 30 years their numbers fluctuated, at one point falling to 36. Today, according to the DAD-IS they are at risk, but maintained and as of 2021 there were 115 left. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 12.2 &#8211; 14 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Retain characteristics of their Arabian ancestors<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/colors\/base\/black\">Black<\/a> | <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/greying\">Grey<\/a> | <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/bay\">Bay<\/a>| <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/brown\">Brown<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Spirited and intelligent<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Transportation<br \/>\nLight farm work<br \/>\nRiding<br \/>\nRacing<\/p>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BjapW1Rcu78?si=4MK35p1CebtBC_39\" 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 Also known as Messara Horse, the Cretan Horse is a light draft horse found in the island of Crete off the coast of Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[126,5,4,118,138,15],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece","tag-at-risk","tag-bay","tag-black","tag-brown","tag-critical-maintained","tag-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","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=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7484,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/7484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}