The Minahasa Horse comes from North Sulawesi, Indonesia and is a combination of Sandlewood Ponies<\/a> crossed with Thoroughbred<\/a>. Making them a sturdy breed that is lighter, taller and faster than the ponies found on some of the other Indonesian islands. Pony breeds found in Indonesia are part of the Southeastern Asia Pony group and descendants of Chinese and Mongolian animals brought to the islands. Over the centuries, breeds were crossed between islands and imports from the UK or the Netherlands may have left their mark. There was a study done in 2011 on the Morphometric Characterization of Minahasa Horse for Breedingand Conservation Purposes<\/a> which offers some useful information about horses in Sulawesi.<\/p>\n Average height 11.9-13.2 hands<\/p>\n According to the report above conformation varies based on location (mountain regions produce heavier animals) <\/p>\n Most solid colors<\/a>, but generally bay<\/a> or brown<\/a><\/p>\n Calm and obedient<\/p>\n Riding Intro The Minahasa Horse comes from North Sulawesi, Indonesia and is a combination of Sandlewood Ponies crossed with Thoroughbred. Making them a sturdy breed that is lighter, taller and faster than the ponies found on some of the other Indonesian islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-7680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indonesia","tag-solid-colors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680","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=7680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9199,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions\/9199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/p>\nOrigins<\/h3>\n
Features<\/h3>\n
Physique<\/h3>\n
Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n
Temperament<\/h3>\n
Use<\/h3>\n
\nTransportation
\nLight agriculture
\nRacing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"