The Guanzhong breed comes from the Weithe basin of China which is an agricultural region famous for their farm stock. Horses were a necessity to the people of this region for agriculture as well as transportation.
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In the 1950’s a growing need for food and transport called for a larger, more robust animal to meet demands. Larger horses were imported from Russia to cross with local animals, but the resulting animals didn’t meet expectations. The body was still too high to provide ample pulling power, so Ardennes<\/a> blood was added to provide some bulk. <\/p>\n In 1965 ideal animals produced from crossbreeding were then paired off to continue the lineage. <\/p>\n Average height 14.3 – 15 hands<\/p>\n Head is medium in size with a straight profile chestnut<\/a> | bay<\/a><\/p>\n Bold and true<\/p>\n Agriculture Intro The Guanzhong breed comes from the Weithe basin of China which is an agricultural region famous for their farm stock. Horses were a necessity to the people of this region for agriculture as well as transportation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[5,11],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-bay","tag-chestnut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","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=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4432,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/4432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Features<\/h3>\n
Physique<\/h3>\n
\nNeck is medium in length and slightly crested
\nBack is wide and straight
\nHindquarters are square and well connected
\nLegs are well set and solid<\/p>\nTraditional Colors<\/h3>\n
Temperament<\/h3>\n
Use<\/h3>\n
\nTransportation <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"