{"id":609,"date":"2010-08-09T04:16:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T04:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=609"},"modified":"2025-10-29T00:03:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:03:57","slug":"german-riding-pony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/german-riding-pony","title":{"rendered":"German Riding Pony"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>Also called the Deutsches Classic Pony, Deutsches Reitpony and Weser-Ems Pony, the German Riding Pony is a relatively new breed that was developed as a pony with horse like characteristics and retaining a horse type. They are often described as mini warmbloods.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>They were developed by crossing <a href=\"\/breeds\/welsh-a\">Welsh<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/connemara-pony\">Connemara<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/new-forest\">New Forest<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/dulmen-pony\">Dulmen<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/arabian-horse\">Arabian<\/a> and <a href=\"\/breeds\/anglo-arabian\">Anglo-Arabian<\/a> bloodlines. The resulting pony is elegant with clean conformation and lively action. Today they are their own breed and new blood is no longer added to their studbooks. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 13.2 &#8211; 14.2 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>There is no distinct types so individual animals vary in shape and size.<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>Most solid <a href=\"\/colors\">colors<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Warm and willing<br \/>\nIntelligent and able<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Sport pony<br \/>\nRiding pony<\/p>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nJaXXyuEQ9c?si=pJvMpEzk930jTcCQ\" 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\/uU9HiMGWBqE?si=6aUiT3pIefLTzhnk\" 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 called the Deutsches Classic Pony, Deutsches Reitpony and Weser-Ems Pony, the German Riding Pony is a relatively new breed that was developed as a pony with horse like characteristics and retaining a horse type. They are often described as mini warmbloods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[126,134,25],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-germany","tag-at-risk","tag-critical","tag-solid-colors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","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=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10220,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/10220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}