{"id":581,"date":"2010-08-09T04:03:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T04:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=581"},"modified":"2025-01-08T16:06:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T16:06:30","slug":"french-saddle-pony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/french-saddle-pony","title":{"rendered":"French Saddle Pony"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>The Poney fran\u00e7ais de selle, Saddlebred Pony or French Saddle Pony is a relatively new breed, created as a high quality riding pony for children that excelled in equine sporting games in 1969.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>This breed comes from a cross between native French pony mares with <a href=\"\/breeds\/arabian-horse\">Arabian<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/connemara-pony\">Connemara<\/a> or <a href=\"\/breeds\/welsh-b\">Welsh<\/a> stallions as well as the blood of several larger local breeds. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 12.1 &#8211; 14.2 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head is small with straight or slightly convex profile<br \/>\nEyes are large and lively<br \/>\nNeck is long and shapely<br \/>\nChest is wide and deep<br \/>\nShoulder is long and sloping<br \/>\nLegs are strong with clean joints<br \/>\nHooves are well shaped and tough<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>All <a href=\"\/colors\">colors<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Willing and alert<br \/>\ngood natured<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Riding pony<br \/>\nShow pony<br \/>\nDriving<\/p>\n<h3>Helpful Links<\/h3>\n<p><small>* all links open in a new window<\/small><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anpfs.com\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French Saddle Pony Association<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FdYdSv1Vjik?si=ahWxzv-88ptNTsWl\" 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<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O3wLVcpHyyo?si=cTvWdQKgQrtKh3Zo\" 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 Poney fran\u00e7ais de selle, Saddlebred Pony or French Saddle Pony is a relatively new breed, created as a high quality riding pony for children that excelled in equine sporting games in 1969.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-france","tag-all-colors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7275,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/7275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}