{"id":771,"date":"2010-08-09T11:56:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T11:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=771"},"modified":"2025-01-16T14:07:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:07:59","slug":"kustanai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/kustanai","title":{"rendered":"Kustanai Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>Also called Kustanair and Kustanaiskaya, the Kustanai breed was developed on the steppes of western Kazakhstan.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>The breed began in 1887 upon establishment of the Turgai stud and was officially recognized in 1951. There native steppe horses were crossed with <a href=\"\/breeds\/don\">Don<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/astrakhan\">Astrakhan<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/strelets\">Strelets<\/a> and half Thoroughbred animals. <\/p>\n<p>In the 1920&#8217;s two different systems of management were established to develop two distinct types of the Kustanai breed, a saddle type and a steppe type. The saddle type possesses <a href=\"\/breeds\/english-thoroughbred\">Thoroughbred<\/a> blood, while the steppe type encompasses most of the other breed mixes. <\/p>\n<p>The Kustanai of today is a massive breed that skillfully combines the saddle horse characteristics with pronounced steppe lineage.<\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 15 &#8211; 15.2 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head is medium in size<br \/>\nNeck is long, straight and low set<br \/>\nBack is wide and short<br \/>\nChest is wide and deep<br \/>\nLegs are well set with developed joints<br \/>\nHooves are hard<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>Solid <a href=\"\/colors\">colors<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Spirited and intelligent<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Riding horse<\/p>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tMKoEmunUqw?si=HeXv4sfHd8GbCjih\" 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 Kustanair and Kustanaiskaya, the Kustanai breed was developed on the steppes of western Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kazakhstan","tag-solid-colors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","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=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7865,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/7865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}