{"id":7722,"date":"2025-01-14T16:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=7722"},"modified":"2025-01-14T16:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:38:06","slug":"irish-pony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/irish-pony","title":{"rendered":"Irish Pony"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>The Irish Pony is essentially a sport type pony breed. We believe they are similar to sport horses and warmblood breeds, registered based on temperament, athletic ability and performance.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>Breeding for this type began in the 1960s and they used a combination of <a href=\"\/breeds\/arabian-horse\">Arabian<\/a> , <a href=\"\/breeds\/welsh-a\">Welsh Pony<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/connemara-pony\">Connemara Pony<\/a> and <a href=\"\/breeds\/english-thoroughbred\">Thoroughbred<\/a> bloodlines.  <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 13.5 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Conformation varies <\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>All <a href=\"\/colors\">colors<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Mild and willing<br \/>\nIntelligent and curious<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Show<br \/>\nRiding<\/p>\n<h3>Helpful Links<\/h3>\n<p><small>*All links open in a new window<\/small><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/irishponysociety.ie\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irish Pony Society<\/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\/8ncX_qP1DQs?si=C9QtrmEYv1FTRnn1\" 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\/U1xdILVkNmw?si=cVKIGg1sXGDPR63L\" 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 Irish Pony is essentially a sport type pony breed. We believe they are similar to sport horses and warmblood breeds, registered based on temperament, athletic ability and performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-7722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ireland","tag-all-colors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722","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=7722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7724,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722\/revisions\/7724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}