{"id":7808,"date":"2025-01-15T21:02:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T21:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2025-01-15T21:02:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T21:02:52","slug":"italian-saddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/italian-saddle","title":{"rendered":"Italian Saddle Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>Also called Sella Italiano, the Italian Saddle Horse is a sport horse breed and their stud books are based on performance rather than breed bloodlines.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>Established in 1973 and developed using traditional Italian saddle breeds and improved with blood from other European saddle animals, including <a href=\"\/breeds\/english-thoroughbred\">, <a href=\"\/breeds\/maremmano\">Maremmano<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/persano\">Persano<\/a> and <a href=\"\/breeds\/salerno\">Salerno<\/a>. This is a popular breed in the nation for show jumping purposes. However bloodlines aren&#8217;t enough to become a registered Sella Italiano, they must also pass a performance test. Their studbook is also open to other European sport horse breeds, providing they can pass the performance test. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Must be at least 15.4 (156 cm) to register<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Lean, muscular build typical of good jumping horses<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>Solid <a href=\"\/colors\">colors<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Energetic and intelligent<br \/>\nAdaptable and robust<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Dressage<br \/>\nEventing<br \/>\nJumping<br \/>\nRiding<\/p>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c0KgyIKYQIQ?si=nQiH925yp16Icpj2\" 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\/QYqTKnpVwGw?si=wJZtoIsjW38P9IPm\" 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 Sella Italiano, the Italian Saddle Horse is a sport horse breed and their stud books are based on performance rather than breed bloodlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-7808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-italy","tag-solid-colors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808","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=7808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7931,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7808\/revisions\/7931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}