{"id":6582,"date":"2024-12-29T17:30:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T17:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=6582"},"modified":"2025-10-29T00:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:16:57","slug":"belgian-trotter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/belgian-trotter","title":{"rendered":"Belgian Trotter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>Also called Trotteur Belge and Belgische Draver, the Belgian Trotter follows in the tradition of European Trotters. Popular in a time when horse racing was among the more accessible of vices.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>This trotter originally comes from cross breeding local carriage and riding horses with a sprinkle of imported <a href=\"\/breeds\/english-thoroughbred\">Thoroughbred<\/a> blood. Later they were influenced by <a href=\"\/breeds\/american-standardbred\">American Standardbred<\/a>, along with German and <a href=\"\/breeds\/french-trotter\">French Trotters<\/a>, although the Belgian tends to be a bit smaller and lighter. <\/p>\n<p>According to the DAD-IS as of 2013 there were between 442-663 purebred animals left.<\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 15.7-16.7 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head is large with a straight or convex profile<br \/>\nNeck is short<br \/>\nBody is compact<br \/>\nLegs are long and strong<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>Generally <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/bay\">bay<\/a> or <a href=\"\/colors\/base\/chestnut\">chestnut<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>High spirited and fast<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Harness racing <\/p>\n<h3>Helpful Links<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vlfedp.be\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vlaamse Federatie voor Paardenwedrennen<\/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\/QVWOyfoolpw?si=EN8h33TBJq-ziM3K\" 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 Trotteur Belge and Belgische Draver, the Belgian Trotter follows in the tradition of European Trotters. Popular in a time when horse racing was among the more accessible of vices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[5,11],"class_list":["post-6582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-belgium","tag-bay","tag-chestnut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582","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=6582"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10262,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions\/10262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}