{"id":7499,"date":"2025-01-11T12:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T12:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=7499"},"modified":"2025-02-17T09:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T09:44:36","slug":"thessalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/thessalian","title":{"rendered":"Thessalian Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>The Thessalian horse is a light draft breed from Thessaly in Greece. There is speculation that Alexander the Great&#8217;s horse, Bucephalus himself was a Thessalian horse. However this is contested by those that believe he was a <a href=\"\/breeds\/turkoman\">Turkoman<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>Their bloodlines include a mix of <a href=\"\/breeds\/arabian-horse\">Arabian<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/anglo-arabian\">Anglo-Arabian<\/a>, <a href=\/breeds\/andalusian-horse\">Andalusian<\/a> and <a href=\"\/breeds\/lipizzan\">Lipizzan<\/a>. While these breeds contributed to (and likely improved) Thessalian bloodlines, they were probably crossed with animals of Turkoman blood. Larger than most of the pony breeds found on the Greek Islands, the Thessalian is a proper horse. While it isn&#8217;t a large one, it is built quite muscular and compact. <\/p>\n<p>Thought to have gone extinct, attempts have been made to grow their numbers and in 1999 a studbook was established. This appears to be working as according to the DAD-IS they are at risk, but as of 2021 there were between 1063 and 1193 of them and numbers were on the rise.<\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 13.7-14.7 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Fine head with nice profile<br \/>\nHandsome conformation<br \/>\nLegs are slender and strong<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>Generally <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/greying\">grey<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Intelligent and affectionate <\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Riding<br \/>\nTransport<\/p>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eZ-lR5mJ3EU?si=fJd71-LdnbMA1zJ6\" 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\/j2e3O6fWbW8?si=Z3jS4UoQdOk0tV6R\" 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 Thessalian horse is a light draft breed from Thessaly in Greece. There is speculation that Alexander the Great&#8217;s horse, Bucephalus himself was a Thessalian horse. However this is contested by those that believe he was a Turkoman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[126,127,15],"class_list":["post-7499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece","tag-at-risk","tag-endangered","tag-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499","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=7499"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9066,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499\/revisions\/9066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}